The prisoner kept a running tally of his incarceration by marking his cell wall with a white line for each day he spent behind bars.

Before there were calculators, merchant would use an abacus to tally up debts owed.

It was once common practice for customers and sellers to own duplicate tally sticks where each notch in the wood represented a specific amount of money owed.

After the final round, the nervous gymnasts waited impatiently for the judges to tally their scores.

After an election, it takes several hours for officials to tally the number of votes for each candidate.