How to Use calculator in a Sentence

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  • Then, hand him a calculator and ask him to punch in his hourly salary.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Get out your calculators and cut some costs.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Settle in for a bit and maybe swipe over to the calculator app on your phone.
    — Philip Bump, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2018
  • Use a student loan calculator to see how much your debt could cost you over time.
    — Nerdwallet, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2024
  • To find out your sun and rising sign, use this birth chart calculator.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 7 Feb. 2021
  • If your child has more than one calculator on the cell phone, that’s trouble.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Tap on the calculator icon in the top right corner.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • The icon for an app called Calculator% looks like a calculator.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
  • And if the price sticker doesn’t show unit price, use your phone’s calculator.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2021
  • No app or cost per wear calculator is needed.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • Go ahead and get out your calculator or use Python and plug in all the values.
    — WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Then squinted at our notes, got a calculator out and went into a fever trance.
    — Sonja Haller, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Some carbon calculators even claim the boat is a lot worse for the climate than the plane.
    — Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This is how much some of the calculators can cost from Walmart.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 24 July 2024
  • When the employee turns away briefly to get a calculator, the man grabs the rings and runs away.
    — Houston Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The night is young, and Steve hasn’t even gotten out his calculator.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Input your details and see what the calculator spits out.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Quiet and fast, this printing calculator’s screen is easy to read.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • The new calculator had raised concern over the past 16 months.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Like the arrival of the calculator in math classes years ago, the tool is not going away.
    — David Risher, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The standards ban the use of calculators before high school.
    — Steven Yoder, States Newsroom, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But there is danger in taking your hands off the wheel and letting these tiers act as a pure trade calculator.
    — Jakob Sanderson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • For those who are more used to weight in pounds and height in feet and inches, there are a number of online calculators.
    — Faye Chiu, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The calculator uses those April prices, which have held steady through May.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • If a basic app like a calculator, scanner or notes tool stops working when offline, ask why.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Holland denied going to the victim’s house and said the man owed him for some calculators.
    — Glenn E. Rice, kansascity, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The calculator metaphor is useful here.
    — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Their researches led them not just to the blackboard and the calculator, but into the past.
    — Luc Sante, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • In the clip, she could be seen going to a thrift store and picking up old remotes, keyboards and calculators.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The calculator is now available for online use.
    — New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2025

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