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Definition of tally:

  • (noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely;
  • (noun) a bill for an amount due
  • (noun) the act of counting;
  • (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
  • (verb) gain points in a game;
  • (verb) keep score, as in games
  • (verb) determine the sum of

Sentence Examples:

The dates and circumstances are now found to tally.

They kept tally of the game by cutting notches upon sticks.

And this tallies with the whole strain of his character.

He dropped his hands, which Mary took as a sign that the tally was finished.

A committee had been appointed to keep tally on the number of wagons crossed on the boats.

Upon Sheldon fell the unpleasant task of tallying the heads.

And the aspect of the county tallies exactly with the state of soul of its people.

The answers of missionaries representing the same denomination have not even tallied.

This tallies very well with the preceding.

The only description I could get tallied with that of the body.

He tallied one more than you did, William.

Pan by pan, he went up the stream, the tally of results steadily decreasing.

He then went about tallying up his trades.

Will's tally-ho coach, drawn by six horses, was in waiting for the incoming party.

A man always respects his wife's judgment more when it tallies with his own convictions.

In this particular, his experience and mine would exactly tally.

It tallied in every detail with the man Tom had seen in the woods.

Look well to the tally before condemning, Rachel cried.

Marlin's close observation, while the forester himself kept tally.

How does this measure tally with their institutions?

The description tallies well enough with my observation.

"Well," the boy answered, "I'm glad at any rate that my figures tallied up all right."

About ten o'clock he turned from a swift contemplation of the tally board.

It's got to be carried down to the docks, and tallied there, and loaded in those vessels.

Tally grinned slowly; and the others burst into a shout of laughter.

Tally stared straight ahead, and sucked at his little pipe.

The two conversed for a moment; then Tally nodded briefly and went out.

Tally followed the direction of his gaze.

Tally walked over to shake this man by the shoulder.

Tally nodded, and, to Bob's surprise, took his place at the bar.

After testing me on the other piles he asked me if I could measure, and could I tally?

Nor did she tally in the fourth.

Hand me some more matches to keep tally with.

Her answers did not tally with his previous knowledge of her.

For each block hit, tally the number upon it.

What if it did not tally with the New York version?

He ordered the tally taken of every head of stock on his ranch.

These citations do not tally with either the public or secret treaty.

The two statements did not exactly tally; but what else could he say?

In height, color of hair, shape of nose, build and manners each of them tallied with it.

That's the full tally for Sir Andrew Barton.

There is a right way and a wrong way to keep tally of them and I can't find it out.

Your information tallies perfectly with all I know, and has increased the sum very much.

This, however, does not tally with the well-known legend of the clock, which now follows.

At the other end of the fish hold another of the Ferrara boys was tallying in fish.

He did it many a time, after tallying fish all day.

I thought, for a while, that you might be the man, though the descriptions did not tally.

Carr's, "particulars tally with the information supplied by you."

Her description tallies exactly with the photograph you have shown me.

"The ten of hearts," repeated Teddy to a man who was keeping tally on a big cardboard.

This would tally with my latest advice.

Everybody's story tallied, where it could be checked up on.

He had to be satisfied with the tally as it stood.

When the bolts were tallied in, Hollister got a check.

This automatic tally system they use on the voting machines is really something.

For a moment the click of the balls on the other tallies was the only sound.

Through roll call after roll call the tally never varied.

They don't generally tally with what I've seen and know of life.

Dane tried to tally his immunity shots and hoped for the best.

I'm finished with this damned tallying of cans of beans and soap and yards of rope!

A tally was a hazel rod which had certain notches indicating the amount due.

I couldn't make his book tally up.

Lois Dunlap rose, laid down her tally card, and strolled over to the remaining table.

McCormick, this is very good tally, John, but where's the Corn?

This name tallied with the name of the child's father in the newspaper.

Everything tallies with the new information I have.

They kept tally of their victims by cutting notches on the butts of their rifles.

How many circulars do tally with facts?

His tally has not yet mounted to a baker's dozen.

The young manager watched the operations and took a tally of the props.

I took right good notice of a heap of things, and they all seem to tally.

"Do the descriptions tally in every respect?"

The test is passed only if the counting tallies with the pointing.

Success requires that the counting should tally with the pointing.

Just want to put her down right and proper on the tally sheet.

This tallies with my father's habits, as described by himself.

I have to tally those that are knocked down.

Take that piece of chalk, and tally.

To my great delight, his description tallied with my idea.

My fair companion rather enjoyed the encounter, and began to tally me.

That it does so tally with this is proved by the existence of language.

"Then this account of them tallies with nothing in your experience."

"Does that description tally with the general appearance of the James Boys?"

Where are the lads who scrapped by rounds, while other lads kept tallies?

The noted pitcher cracked out a home run, making the tally with ease.

I've trusted you to tally a thousand head of steers for me a half dozen times a year.

How many young men is there that we can tally out?

Snow, snow all the time, till the tally of days grew, and the weeks slowly passed.

These are mere words, having no real tally in fact.

Her account tallied in the main with the one given by Nora.

If it was, how exactly it all tallied with the African's vision!

Think what an awful tally it would be, Jonathan.

This tally did not cover Indians, of whom he had slain several.

His tally was now sixty-six men at least.

His tally was now seventy-five men.

His tally of eighty-five men seems large, but in fair probability it is not large enough.

The statement I made tallied so exactly with yours that I got off all right.

It must be guided and directed so that it tallies with the work of others.

Buck made a tally in a separate column and released the animal.

Didn't he put up stores on a tally, and don't we owe him a turn now we're in luck?