How to Use arithmetic in a Sentence

arithmetic

noun

• I haven't actually done the arithmetic yet, but I suspect we're losing money on the deal.
• The trouble is not the arithmetic.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• The arithmetic of loss never makes sense to me—who stays, who goes, and when.
  — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
• The summer arithmetic runs the other way across much of the rich world.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• The trouble is what the arithmetic is pointed at.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• Zinke had struggled from the start to explain his arithmetic.
  — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2018
• And of course there’s some other stuff that can do arithmetic better than us.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2025
• And once it’s shaped and hardened, the rest is just arithmetic and money.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• Some of this coyness stems from Wall Street’s new arithmetic.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Studios have been doing this sort of arithmetic a lot lately.
  — T.m. Brown, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• Of course, every child should learn how to write essays and do basic arithmetic.
  — Niral Shah, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
• Yet the arithmetic of modern politics stands in the way.
  — Z. John Zhang, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
• And each room carries a special theme such as music, art and, yes, arithmetic.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 20 Apr. 2018
• This was pure old school – a textbook of reading, writing and arithmetic.
  — Ailene Voisin, sacbee.com, 6 May 2017
• Then again, games are still scored with numbers, so arithmetic does matter in these contests.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
• If our arithmetic is correct, that's more than $22 thousand per square inch.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 20 May 2017
• Simple arithmetic will show you that two heads and an extra set of hands are always better than one.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2019
• Those who worked out at the gym this week seemed to be engrossed in a complicated moral arithmetic.
  — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
• Add it all up Brace yourself, because the arithmetic may be hard to swallow.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2017
• But none of that changes the fundamental arithmetic.
  — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• What sounds like bad arithmetic is correct politics.
  — Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
• The cold arithmetic of politics suggests none of these options end well.
  — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
• They are also asked to solve simple arithmetic problems and define words.
  — Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• Doing the arithmetic, that doesn't leave a lot of space for Harrison.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2023
• Being a scholar is not just about reading, writing and arithmetic.
  — Amanda Morris, Courant Community, 30 July 2017
• In Casanova’s moral arithmetic, two wrongs somehow always made a right.
  — Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• For one thing, those estimates might change, altering the trade off arithmetic.
  — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 5 May 2020
• The mortal arithmetic here is easy to do—and argues strongly in favor of getting the shots.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Jan. 2021
• But the arithmetic in the Senate is less forgiving than in the House.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 13 July 2017
• There’s an awful lot of bit patterns in floating-point arithmetic no one ever uses.
  — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2022