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determine the sum of
Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town - be reasonable or logical or comprehensible
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add up in number or quantity
The bills amounted to $2,000
The bill came to $2,000 -
develop into
This idea will never amount to anything
nothing came of his grandiose plans
How To Use add up In A Sentence
- Each day we make countless choices and live out deeply ingrained habits that all add up to a lifestyle. Christianity Today
- Masham Parish Council wanted to add uplighters to the stone bridge over the River Ure at a cost of about £4,500, but the scheme is strongly opposed by North Yorkshire County Council whose officials say it would be illegal.
- Because when you add up the total tax packages that the Republicans passed last year and this year, it literally consumes the entire surplus, and the winners turn out to be the wealthiest people.
- The various facts in their report just don't add up.
- To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge in without delay.
- When you're feeding a family of six the bills soon add up.
- Her track list doesn't add up to anything more than a desire, however noble, to cover folk songs.
- Though he's slightly built and really needs to add upper body strength, de Haan runs the PP impeccably with great decisions in puck distribution and he's also a smooth skater and very intelligent at both ends. Talent runs deep among defensemen in 2009 NHL Draft
- If you add up the charges in the proton and neutron, you will find they are the observed values.
- These charges are posted automatically to your shipboard account, and like bar tabs, can add up quickly.