Sentence examples for pencil out from inspiring English sources

Now the numbers don't pencil out, and stockholders are fuming.

"Affordable by itself simply doesn't pencil out," he said.

"The utilization of that space for a dying newspaper, in their eyes, just doesn't pencil out".

"If you can't net meter in the summer months, it definitely doesn't pencil out," he said.

"I know he's a brilliant guy, but it just doesn't pencil out".

They're always showing you multivariate regressions or explaining why some promising idea "didn't pencil out".

"Projects that looked great 18 months ago may not pencil out today".

They may not pencil out in terms of revenue per available room, but they may not be expected to".

TechCrunch says that News Corporation proposed several options to Yahoo last week "but none of them pencil out".

The question that once again arises, as it did in the mid-1980s, "does high input wheat pencil out, if wheat prices remain at $4.00/bushel or lower"?

Gone are the days when investments in clean energy may feel good, but neither "pencil out" or provide better services than the dirty energy systems they replace.