English example sentences with "figures"

Learn how to use figures in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

The accountant will go into these figures.

We could barely make out two figures in the dark.

Lincoln is one of the greatest figures in American history.

So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.

Young girls' desire for slim figures is strong.

A businessman is working out some figures with a calculator.

Tom is accurate at figures.

Totem poles consist of a group of figures that represent animals, birds, fish, mythological beings and supernatural beasts.

I am bit weak at figures.

These figures don't add up.

The figures are exactly alike.

In addition to classifying the data, the machine also checks the figures.

The student may have copied the figures in a hurry.

Computers will save you much time and energy when you deal with figures and graphs.

These figures are signs of a family or clan.

Add up these figures.

These figures indicate three in five college first-year students are indifferent to politics.

Will you please check these figures?

This book is full of figures of speech.

The figures in this table are shown in thousands.

Add up this column of figures.

He doesn't check his figures when he's calculating.

We don't have time to finish checking the figures now, but we can go over them after lunch.

I deal in facts and figures, not vague impressions.

Both young and old people desire slim figures.

Some women are quick at figures.

Women are said to be weak at figures.

Write the amount on the check in letters as well as figures.

The figures add up to 230.

Once you go ahead and start, even the tiresome work of adding and subtracting figures is interesting in its way.

Some men are slow at figures.

It is safer to say that some men and some women are good at figures.

Men are said to be quick at figures.

When one of my coworkers starts racking up good sales figures I can't let down my guard.

He added up the figures.

He is expert at figures.

He is quick at figures.

It was foggy, so it was hard to make out the figures of people walking.

Are the Chinese GDP figures a case of the boy crying wolf?

There were figures there from those of an age best called girls and boys to those who looked to be old enough to be about to live out their life span.

Great figures don't meet high standards, but rather make their own.

Rubleŭskaja created very believable images of such historical figures as Francysk Skaryna, Franc Savič, and Barbara Radzivił.

As figures from the National Development and Reform Committee show, the Internet has developed rapidly in rural China.

Did you double-check these figures?

Important geometric figures, that are triangle, square, rectangle, circle, parallelogram and trapeze.

The figures and grotesque masks decorating the modillions are interesting.

He amused himself by drawing figures.

She said that her life was so boring. It figures because all she did was watch TV all day.

All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street.

Many logograms are just graphical idiomatic expressions, "figures of speech."

I can't make out these figures.

He's one of the most important figures in modern literature.

Add up this list of figures.

I've never been good with figures.

I was never good at figures.

Franz Liszt created the concept of the "symphonic poem". This is a composition for orchestra that uses music to describe nonmusical content. This could include, for example, people, legendary figures, landscapes, or paintings.

Tom's figures were way off.

She is quick at figures.

Figures of speech are tools well employed by writers in any literary genre.

In the darkness, we could just barely make out two figures.

Tom has always had a problem with authority figures.

The other figures in the painting are depicted with slight foreshortening.

In the 15th century the Spanish inquisitor Pedro de Arbués de Épila organized in Zaragoza a game of "living chess" with heretics to stand in as figures who were put to death when they were "captured". In 1867 Arbués was canonized by Pope Pius IX.

Who can't be proud of being Serbian, part of a group whose greatest historical achievements have been slaughtering authority figures and genocides?

Let's note in passing that those figures were excluded from the investigation.

Figures increasingly show that the more we crack down on drug use, the more drug addicts there are.

The loaf was adorned all about with pretty figures, with towns and fortresses on each side, and within it was white as snow and light as a feather.

My figures don't seem to tally with yours.

Caesar’s audacity was the beginning of a very distinguished military and political career. In time, like Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonapart, he became one of the most famous figures in world history.

The figures are staggering.

The figures are incredible.

The figures are impressive.

The figures for recidivism rates among murderers cited in the newspaper appear to have been taken out of thin air.

Those figures couldn't be confirmed.

Write the amount on the check in words as well as figures.

These figures are beyond human understanding.

Do you have a moment to discuss these figures with me?

Tom figures he's not alone.

My cousin has a large collection of action figures.

Round to three significant figures.

Do you think that these figures accurate?

Two figures did not match.

All the figures matched.

Sami and Layla would pretend to be figures of the Medieval history world.

Facts and figures speak for themselves.

Tom's grandchildren were playing with the nativity set figures.

Mary's pictures often show figures shrouded in a heavy mist.

"Tom was the one who broke the window." "It figures. He's very careless."

As the whirl of dust drew nearer to the solitary bluff upon which the two castaways were reposing, the canvas-covered tilts of waggons and the figures of armed horsemen began to show up through the haze, and the apparition revealed itself as being a great caravan upon its journey for the West.

The watchers from the plain below could see them flit from rock to rock until their figures stood out against the skyline.

With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across the garden, and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornfield.

I collect action figures.

What are the real figures?

Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought.

These figures are inaccurate.

Two figures emerged from the room.

Could such respectable figures as Ilan Pappe, Noam Chomsky, and Avi Shlaim be considered as anti-Semite?

I need exact figures, not hand-waving and guesses.

'Twas night; on earth all creatures were asleep, / when lo! the figures of our gods, the same / whom erst from falling Ilion o'er the deep / I brought, scarce rescued from the midmost flame, / before me, sleepless for my country's shame, / stood plain, in plenteousness of light confessed, / where streaming through the sunken lattice came / the moon's full splendour, and their speech addressed, / and I in heart took comfort, hearing their behest.

Tom figures that he's not alone.

Mary figures that she's not alone.

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