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How to use subtract in a sentence

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Now, all that simple arithmetic simply means that you add 50 to your chosen number, then you subtract the chosen number!
Mikhail can spell words such as elephant, and add and subtract four-digit numbers, and is learning multiplication.
So to get the correct figure, we have to subtract the number of days when it was both.
You may add or subtract from my suggested text as you see fit, but please keep it polite.
He found some of that useful redundancy in the instructions that tell the computer to add or subtract.
They question the computers, add and subtract, extract square roots, and then go into action.
But when you fill out the worksheet, you must subtract the amount of your payment before those deductions, known as offsets.
Instead, you reverse the order of the numbers, subtract, and take the negative.
If any running column total exceeds 11, subtract 11 and put a tick mark in that column.
Imagine an accountant who can add but can't subtract, and who is so nearsighted he can't see past his nose.
He may not understand how to add or subtract zero as a quantity, she added.
But if we subtract the postmodern from the modern in the United States, a large chunk of the latter remains.
At a very simplified level, hair coloring is all about finding the right amount of color to add or subtract from your current hair tint.
If we subtract a positive number from an empty power, the same negative number remains.
It is therefore forbidden to add or subtract any commandments from the Torah.
Wear clothing in layers so you can add or subtract items to prevent chills or sweating.
Since its differences are the same as the Fibonacci series differences, we can add or subtract a constant to the Fibonacci series.
Use gloved hands and a small trowel to add or subtract rock dust as needed to make sure each stone is at precisely the right height.
Some would prefer politics to stick to safer ground, forever debating whether we should add or subtract a penny in the pound from income tax.
So the more you can subtract negatives and add positives the better off you are.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Hence, to reduce a Macedonian date to the Common Era, subtract 311 years and four months.
From the centurial figures of the year subtract 17, divide by 25, and keep the quotient.
You only intend, then, to dispose of that part of your fortune which the law allows you to subtract from the inheritance of your son?
Read the temperature of the dry bulb and the wet, and subtract.
It will be found much better, in the long run, to do the thing in two days, and then subtract one of them from the narrative.
Emma Jane can add and subtract in her head like a streek of lightning and knows the speling book right through but has no thoughts of any kind.
From this log subtract the log of difference of meridional parts.
Potato the two-year-old Samoyed, Yixing City, is able to add, subtract, multiply and divide, even though he has no experience of professional training at all.
I would not subtract anything from the praise that is due to philanthropy, but merely demand justice for all who by their lives and works are a blessing to mankind.
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