sum-total

Example Sentences

• "We first add the sums in the money columns of the credit side of the account, and find they amount to $57 .50, which is the sum-total of all I have received from him."
• "The armies of the two, embracing regular trrops and those subject to call, did not differ much in numbers, unless we set aside the "Almanach de Gotha,", which puts the military force of France somewhat vaguely at 1,350,000, while that of North Germany is only 977,262, to which must be added 49,949 for Bavaria, 34,953 for Wuertemberg, and 43,703 for Baden, making a sum-total of 1,105,867."
• "Note that the sample size is less than the sum-total of Whethersfield family-heads in 1668."
• "Consequently the sum-total that you ought to have in hand soon is how much? 12,000 roubles. Is that right?""
• "Shakspere's plots are, almost without exception, distinguished by their complexity. The mystery or surprise which makes up the sum-total of many a plot, becomes in Shakspere only one amongst many details."
• "If I am right, Wittgenstein's claim, "The sum-total of reality is the world" (2.063), which has mystified many, amounts to the assertion that the actual world is the sum-total of all realities, that is, facts."