abacus

Example Sentences

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Calculators, cars and probably candles and the abacus were considered a menace to society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

For example, you can add numbers perfectly using an abacus, in which wooden beads are pushed back and forth to represent arithmetic operations.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2023

You can put away the abacus for this year though.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2022

Thus many of her pieces, like earrings with lines of delicately strung freshwater pearls that resemble an abacus, are made entirely in house.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

I looked down but I couldn’t say I’d ever seen abacus beads like that.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd