How to Use subtraction in a Sentence

subtraction

noun

• The children are learning addition and subtraction.
• The trades were a good start, a chance to rise more so because of subtraction.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• If done correctly—and with thought—a belt won’t be a subtraction from the suit’s look, but rather, a plus.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2023
• The addition of the bullet means the subtraction of a linebacker.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 May 2021
• The addition and the subtraction quotients don’t seem to make sense.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2024
• With the changing of seasons comes the changing of clocks and the subtraction of an hour of sleep from your nightly schedule.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• After some subtraction and some division, James called her and told her that the plans might need to change.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• The trees appeared as a subtraction, reflecting their own death as a black void against a less black sky.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• To many fans, his track record is one of far more subtraction than addition.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2021
• The art of subtraction is essential to his skill as a writer and actor.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• But a league source said that the Celtics will not make any moves that are based on the additions or subtractions of other teams in the conference.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
• That’s more good news — addition by subtraction, something a lot of news shows could learn from.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
• But subtraction is in the forecast because of the expansion draft next month when Seattle will pluck a player from the Wild.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• James, age 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
• The story for 60 years, however, has been one of subtraction.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
• Those include a sketched subtraction sign at 12 o’clock, as well as the yellow, red, orange, green and blue hues seen on the album’s cover art.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
• But folks who haven’t been to the theme park in a few weeks may be surprised by alterations, subtractions and the sheer number of construction walls.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• On the bottom right, a subtraction symbol denotes the record’s title.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2023
• But will the addition-by-subtraction plan translate to wins?
  — Olivia Conte and Jill Martin, CNN, 9 Aug. 2019
• James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.
  — Ariel Gilreath, al, 29 Aug. 2023
• So let’s hope at the trade deadline, the Nuggets have a better option than addition by subtraction.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2017
• At tax time, filers choose between a tax credit or a tax subtraction.
  — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
• This set also has a deck for addition and subtraction that his younger brothers can use too.
  — Jessica Fleming, Parents, 10 July 2023
• And so, over aeons, Mount Sharp was cut out of the once-even plain, a mountain not added to the surface from below like those of Earth, but created by subtraction from above.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• The process of school addition and subtraction will be anything but simple.
  — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2022
• Helio Castroneves is still in the hunt as the 2017 IndyCar championship race is down to the point of subtraction.
  — Elton Alexander, cleveland.com, 29 July 2017
• And while some Survivor purists may throw their hands in the air and scream about the change, the truth is, a 13-day subtraction does not actually make a big difference in terms of the story on the screen.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2022
• Combined with the subtraction of the average noise, this could lead to disaster: seeing a signal where there is none.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• An increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, also pulled down the growth number.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2022
• Since modular subtraction is associative, that also means that se − m mod n ≡ 0.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024