How to Use bookkeeper in a Sentence

bookkeeper

noun
  • Shell, 42, a bookkeeper from Batesville, Ark., was said to have a three-day supply of medicine with him.
    Lindsey Bever, ajc, 10 July 2018
  • Her mother, Rachel (Frank) Ross, was a bookkeeper for the shoe business and helped out at the farm.
    New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • At the time, Jean was working as a part-time bookkeeper for one of Trebek's friends.
    Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • His wife worked as a seamstress and bookkeeper for the business.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Tony was always the driver, while Dana was the bookkeeper.
    Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Baker worked at the Electric Blue and served as the manager and bookkeeper for the club.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • Joshua Baker worked at the Electric Blue and served as the manager and bookkeeper for the club.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2024
  • This year there will be 781 animals at the fair, says Chris Turner, the fair’s bookkeeper.
    Sue Kiesewetter, Cincinnati.com, 20 July 2017
  • When the economy picked up after the start of World War II, my father found work as a bookkeeper.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
  • Dan's got 10 hours to kill the Russian mob's bookkeeper in exchange for the antidote.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 May 2021
  • From a camp bed in a foreign country, the 40-year-old bookkeeper thinks about restarting her and her children’s lives from square one.
    Monika Scislowska and Rafal Niedzielski, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The sandwich spreads are controlled by the bookkeeper’s family to this day.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Trump Tower bookkeepers sent the checks to Washington to be signed by the president in black Sharpie.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 25 May 2024
  • In fact, up to this point, U.K. bookkeepers have been favoring odds that the royal baby will be a girl with the name Alice or Mary.
    Lyndsey Matthews, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Bout, the son of a mechanic and a bookkeeper, drew a warm welcome from Russia on Thursday.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Pugh had served as the league’s treasurer/bookkeeper since 2017.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The bill grounds itself in the analogy of a bookkeeper and a bookstore, which is now a far cry from the current state of our internet.
    Tiffany Ng, Vox, 9 May 2024
  • She is retired but spent her career working as a banker, a part-time teacher and a bookkeeper.
    Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
  • His father owned a hardware store, and his mother was a bookkeeper.
    Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
  • As bookkeeper for the county, the auditor cuts the checks for the county, overseeing the payment of bills and payroll.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 27 July 2021
  • Nuril relied on her $75-a-month bookkeeper wage at the school to help support her family.
    CNN, 17 July 2019
  • McKenzie also works on the side as a bookkeeper for a catering business.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
  • For those who are too busy to do this, hire a bookkeeper, which can be a lifesaver come tax time, or worse, if you are ever audited.
    David Rae, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • His mother was a stenographer and journalist who later worked as the bookkeeper and cashier at the store.
    New York Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Dear Annie: This is for the woman whose husband cheated on her with his bookkeeper.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Her husband, a bookkeeper, said many are in the same situation and hope their high bills are addressed.
    Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Goldman praises Jo Anne Kessler, the synagogue’s bookkeeper, for coming up with the idea for the blankets project.
    Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • His father had a glass and mirror business, his mother had been a bookkeeper.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 29 July 2020
  • The bookkeeper refused, the government says, so Gates did it himself.
    Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2018
  • On the coast in Hooper Bay, Lori Hill, the city’s bookkeeper, said that paying $25 for 3 gallons of gas is hitting everyone hard.
    Olivia Ebertz and Will McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2022

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