How to Use ledger in a Sentence

ledger

noun
  • Signs of a soft landing are emerging in Texas — on the spending side of the ledger.
    Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Before 2022 was done, Ledecky added two more world records to her ledger.
    CBS News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • But some things will go wrong, and that should be enough to pile a few more losses on their ledger.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Each page has the rulings of a records book, as if Klara had repurposed a ledger.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Many buried there are unnamed in the old ledger of burials and were laid to rest in unmarked graves.
    al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • On the other side of the ledger, the gig economy is burgeoning.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The big question is whether the Bow plant will be added to the renewable or fossil fuel side of the ledger.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In a season of bad losses, add one more to the Miami Heat’s ledger.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
  • That hardly matters to the Tigers, who now have three quad-four losses on their ledger.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Last month's result added yet another UK win to the ledger in the all-time series.
    Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 11 Feb. 2023
  • On the veggie side of the ledger (tomatoes are a fruit), consider broccoli.
    Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Blockchain is best known as the ledger of cryptocurrencies.
    Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Predictably, he was asked one last time about his desire to add a Super Bowl to his ledger.
    J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • On the opposite side of the ledger, donations to the company have been steady.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 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
  • But what was he supposed to put in his personal ledger?
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Police also found a ledger with states written down for pick-up and drop-off sites for dogs.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Ohio State goes on the ledger as one of the 14, then 16, unanimous votes for both annexations.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Burnes then added two more strikeouts to his ledger in retiring the next three batters.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • On the other side of the ledger, total outlays increased by 11 percent year-over-year.
    The Editors, National Review, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Wyoming already has a Week 1, double-overtime win over Texas Tech on its ledger.
    Corey Smith, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The Cleveland woman added that threats were made on both sides of the ledger, and none of hers were to be taken literally.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Instead, his ledger at TPC Scottsdale now includes eight top 20s in eight tries.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In other years, this buyer says, a ledger would already be filled with hard numbers.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 May 2023
  • First, the computing assures each new transaction that someone tries to put in the ledger follows the rules.
    David B. Black, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This year’s state semifinalists have awfully good chances of adding to the ledger.
    Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • On the personal side of the ledger, many of us will almost certainly need to drive less, eat less meat and fly less often.
    Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The Huskers don’t create big plays against the pass either, with just four sacks and two interceptions on their ledger through their first four games.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2022
  • And fabrics stacked in bolts is an accounting, the horizontal folds like lines in a ledger.
    Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Because with one loss on the ledger, there is only a small path to 10 wins and staying nationally ranked.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022

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