adding machine
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Martha stood up on a platform at the adding machine show, and answered the problems quicker than the calculators could operate.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
