How to Use log in a Sentence

log

1 of 2 noun
  • This is the first call the pair have had since Feb. 15, according to White House call logs.
    NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Snipers shoot the same round day in and day out and keep meticulous log books.
    Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2024
  • His White House appointment was at 4 p.m., the logs show.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Near the log’s tapered end, the researchers noticed a large notch.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The older children cleared the land, cut trees into logs and laid the inch-think planked floors.
    Jeastman, oregonlive, 14 June 2023
  • Southwick police threw out a buoy, which may have dislodged the body from the log.
    Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
  • The toads live in the forest leaves, under rotting logs and near creeks or streams.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Use a match to light the tinder, slowly adding the additional sticks and logs as the fire builds.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The logs show a deputy arrived 46 minutes later; Oropeza was gone.
    Jake Bleiberg, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
  • Plaintiffs alleged that there is no way to delete the text messages and call logs from the car system.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
  • They can be found under shady places like logs, rocks, large shrubs, and woodpiles.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Make rolls: Roll dough into a log, starting with 1 long side.
    Molly Allen, Southern Living, 1 July 2023
  • Then roll it lengthwise, into a long log, cut it in half, and put it in the buttered, papered bread pans to rise.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Dec. 2023
  • At least 10 police units were still at the scene about 11 a.m., according to a police call log.
    Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The Lucky Sailor account and Faithful Warrior logs say they were called in hours later.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • Her cat, Frankie, dense as a log, offers plenty of cuddles.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Print it from home or stop by any San Diego Public Library to pick up a reading log.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • The motor on the roughly 14-foot aluminum boat stalled and the boat became caught in a log jam and flipped, said Tim DeSpain, a spokesman for the troopers.
    Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the log posture is the complete opposite, with the person’s arms and legs straight as their body, akin to, well, a log.
    Brianna Kamienski, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The greatest danger is getting a foot caught in a crack between rocks or on a submerged log.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • When building a fire, use small sticks and twigs rather than large logs that create more heat than is needed.
    Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The thick forests in the river’s upper watershed, which had supplied the logs now jammed in the river, beckoned.
    Adam M. Sowards, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • Brewer: Falls are points at which somebody is filing a bug card, or looking through the logs.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 July 2023
  • Early canoes were made by digging out the insides of logs.
    Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 14 Dec. 2023
  • People on the Adriana reject help, untie the rope and restart their engine, the patrol boat logs say.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • The log rack can be kept indoors or outdoors for your convenience.
    Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Don’t have fire logs, propane tanks or untreated wood decks near a structure.
    Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The crash caused the logs to go through the driver’s side of the car, injuring the 25-year-old from Fernandina Beach, per the reports.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • Twist ends of plastic wrap until taut and uniform in shape, and then gently roll logs to smooth out edges.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The ride in the photos, Logger’s Leap, was the UK’s highest log flume, but closed in 2015, and the theme park is now wanting to redevelop the area around it.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 1 May 2023
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log

2 of 2 verb
  • Thousands of trees have been logged in this area.
  • The company has been logging in this area for many years.
  • Part of his job is to log all deliveries.
  • The forest has been heavily logged.
  • Truck drivers log thousands of miles every week.
  • She has only been flying for a few months, but she has already logged more than 80 hours.
  • The first step is to log in to your StudentAid.gov account and check who your loan servicer is.
    Adriana Morga, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The Australian has logged more than 20 minutes in each match.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Bryant, 26, has logged double-digit minutes in nine of the Heat’s last 10 games.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The other day, someone had to log into the Wi-Fi to set up something on the network.
    Fox News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • For example, do users need a username or email to log in?
    Forrester, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • New users will have to log in with a personal Google Account.
    Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
  • But over the centuries, logging, farming and the expansion of cities wiped most of those forests out.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • Your dad spent seven years in prime time on Growing Pains and logged hundreds of episodes on game shows.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Users pay a premium for those, and a cut of that revenue gets logged to OpenAI’s ledger.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Indeed, by the end of 2023, the sector logged some of the most expensive transactions (and listings) to date.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In each of the two years after New Mexico’s red flag law took effect in 2020, the city logged a new homicide record.
    Rob Kuznia, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • Jaquez was the only Heat player who logged more than 30 minutes on Friday.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Login rate limiting when many are logging in at the same time.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In three seasons with the Bengals, Hendrickson has logged 39 sacks.
    Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Since June, the program has logged 48 kits in the tracking system and 33 survivors have accessed the online portal to check the status of their kits.
    Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • To unlock the savings, make sure you’re logged into your Amazon Prime account.
    Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 8 July 2023
  • Through August last year, the payroll section had logged 380 notices.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Paul George didn’t play after the first quarter, logging eight minutes and scoring 10 points.
    Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The team did log the flyers as a hate and bias incident, which will appear in a public report at the end of the academic year.
    Cristian Martinez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Like the other services on this list, Brave says its Search product doesn’t track your searches or log your data.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Porsche and the Penske team had the job of being the first to integrate the hybrid components with their new race car, logging tens of thousands of miles in testing in the process.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Instagram users will be able to log in with their existing user names and follow the same accounts on the new app.
    Kelvin Chan, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2023
  • These trackers can help users stay logged into a site or help a site remember what users leave in their shopping carts.
    Popular Science, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Cameron Kaiser With either client, logging in is a similar process.
    Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2023

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