pocket calculator

Example Sentences

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Value still works, but measuring it requires more than a pocket calculator.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

However, everything on which I try to make a phone call is anything but a mobile - a pocket calculator, a TV remote control… nothing can connect me to the present day.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2023

In her shopping basket was a notebook, a spreadsheet and a pocket calculator.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2021

Mr. McNamee reached into a tote bag and pulled out a small pocket calculator of his own.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2017

“Figure it out for yourself,” she said, flipping me a pocket calculator.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman