How to Use line item in a Sentence

line item

noun

• For any event, the venue is one of the most costly line items.
  — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2020
• The grant will be a line item in next year’s budget as well.
  — Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 9 Sep. 2019
• Food is one of the biggest line items in many of our budgets.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• None of this is a panacea, and the bill doesn’t overhaul the Defense Health Agency that is a big line item.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
• That’s real money, more than a lot of line items in the state budget.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Then hand them the receipt and point out the various line items, like sales tax.
  — Rebecca McVane, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 May 2018
• Not all at once, of course, and not from one person or one line item on a budget.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2020
• The cuts were made to create a line item in this year’s budget that would fund legal claims against the town.
  — Jessica Saggio | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• The largest line item, according to the city, is for $78 million in paving and street repairs.
  — oregonlive, 18 May 2021
• In the past year, aluminum prices per ton have jumped 66%, swelling the line item for beverage cans.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2021
• The moment that will, for now, stand as the top line item on Rodgers' career résumé in Green Bay.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2022
• The most expensive line item of any project can be regret.
  — Barbara Ballinger, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• Dunleavy in the past has not shied away from vetoing line items in the state budget.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Enforcement is by far the biggest line item in the new IRS funding.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
• The next largest line items were meals and entertainment and a website.
  — oregonlive.com, 15 June 2019
• The tax bills will include the $75 service fee as a line item, one fee for each occupied dwelling.
  — Cindy Arlinghaus Martin, Cincinnati.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• This is a practical line item that should be discussed with parties from all sides of the road.
  — Robert Morast, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2020
• The retention issue that gets a line item, but not a budget.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2020
• But the switch doesn't put a dent in districts' largest line item: teacher pay and benefits.
  — Sophie Quinton, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2018
• The money will come from the stormwater fund's drainage improvements line item.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2022
• This year’s back-to-school supply list has an important line item: masks.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
• Until a few weeks ago, child care was the biggest line item in our monthly budget.
  — Maggie Bullock, The Atlantic, 6 May 2020
• The most expensive line item in the plan is $1.6 million for a new ladder truck for the Fire Department.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2021
• Ask the franchisor for an investment worksheet and a sample P&L, and don't be afraid to ask about each line item.
  — Shaun Lewis, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• The transit agency said its budget does not include a line item for the revenue.
  — Clay Anderson, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2021
• And that line item actually goes up under the Trump tax code.
  — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• There is no line item for Animal Control in the budget.
  — al, 15 Sep. 2021
• On the expense side of the ledger, the biggest line item, player salaries, is limited since the league enforces what’s known as a hard salary cap.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 8 July 2021
• Between the lines: Whitmer vetoed a total of $9 million in line items.
  — Samuel Robinson, Axios, 26 July 2024
• There was a separate line item to support migrants and sheltering that Congress passed.
  — Miles Bryan, Vox, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024