Sentence examples for was a sum from inspiring English sources
It was a sum that Wall Street traders often see at bonus time.
The most recent gift was a sum of £5,000 from a private donor lodged in September.
Twenty thousand dollars was more than she could afford, but $5,000 -- Preecha's going rate, plus air fare to Bangkok -- was a sum she could manage.
A sinking fund was a sum of money that the government undertook to set aside each year to pay down its debt.
I realised a demand on my account for £12 must have come in after I had paid at the beginning of December what I thought was a sum settling the full amount owing.
She is certainly ready for a change, knowing as she does "that an emotion was a sum totaled by an adding machine of the mind," and that nothing leaves an afterglow like rape — so long as one keeps the act attached to those frequently checked philosophical premises.
In my case, a picture is a sum of destructions.
A picture used to be a sum of additions.
"It's a sum of its component parts.
For most of us, $500bn£325bnbn) is a sum beyond comprehension.
/ Here I am, a sum of different parts.
