adding machine
Example Sentences
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The first adding machine was invented in 1623.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2023
The vintage telephone and even more vintage adding machine!
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2020
Bowman is a language dervish—the pleasure in hearing him describe the adding machine, the source of William S. Burroughs’s family as “the rosary of capitalism,” belongs not to me but to literature.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019
Mandell's Solomon, his hands aflutter as though dancing on the keys of an adding machine, traverses the stage like an old bird on twig-like legs that are about to snap.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2015
Bills piled up rapidly, and he was soon faced with the loss of his most precious medical instruments: his adding machine was repossessed, and then his typewriter.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
