How to Use logbook in a Sentence

logbook

noun
  • The old paper logbooks in use since the 1930s can no longer be used.
    Anthony Sorci, sacbee, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The handwriting in the logbook also matched the neat script on the message.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Aside from a logbook, the contents of caches vary widely.
    Glenn Derene, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2011
  • The book's content, which is written in vignettes, was pulled from the logbook Egenes kept at the time.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Perhaps as their race or their people, the way it was written in the logbook.
    David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Cantrell said each unit has a logbook for checks and a roll call for when youths are off-unit -- at school or in the dining hall.
    Ginny Monk, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Among other records, the archives contain a copy of Hubble’s logbook from the fall of 1923.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Inside, a makeshift counter holds a logbook for stand locations and check-ins.
    Adam Moore, Outdoor Life, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The sergeant will keep a logbook to track the date and time that a liaison cellphone was issued and when it was returned.
    oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2019
  • And once again, the logbook contains fresh accolades for just how blissful the 740i is.
    Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 16 June 2017
  • Steve Duffey copied the case number from the logbook and rode the elevator down to the fifth-floor central records room.
    Isabel Seliger, ProPublica, 24 May 2021
  • Some familiar nits have already cropped up in the BRZ's logbook.
    Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The miles have piled on quickly, and not surprisingly, the logbook is filling up with praise.
    David Beard, Car and Driver, 11 Feb. 2022
  • There were some minor quibbles in our logbook about dull steering feel, but the biggest hang-up with this Niro was its price.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 28 June 2023
  • This revving, frisky 45 is a logbook containing the codes and call signs of the postwar dispensation.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • What worries him more these days is the coming of electronic logbooks.
    Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 23 May 2017
  • At the beginning of our careers, most of us start using a paper logbook.
    Charlie Page, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The entries, each appended with a detailed list of the stops the patient had made, in sparse, sterile language, read like a ship’s logbook.
    Max S. Kim, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Rather 18th and 19th century whalers scoured the oceans for the massive beasts, who were valued for their meat and blubber, and noted each kill in ship logbooks.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Children, armed with a mission logbook, will help OceanX crew members search for a giant squid.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 25 June 2021
  • Partridge also checked the logbook for Parrish’s name, and found that someone had whited it out.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Its logbook filled with praise for its ride and handling, no matter the surface or speed, and then the Pathfinder went and aced the skidpad test with a class-leading 0.74 g of grip.
    Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 22 June 2020
  • There’s also the enormity of moments described in the logbooks.
    Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • And keep some sort of logbook, your health passport, with that information.
    Lacy Scarmana, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The Times could not verify the authenticity of the logbook page.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • All staff wear masks and gloves, and daily temperatures are recorded in a logbook.
    Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The logbook also had praise for the small switches mounted on the side of the passenger seat that allow the driver or rear passengers to move that seat fore and aft.
    Annie White, Car and Driver, 30 July 2020
  • Edwin signed his name in the visitors’ logbook while the guard examined his ID and phoned the staff’s office to announce his arrival.
    National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Sailors disagree and keep up a New Year’s Day tradition by writing logbook entries in verse.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Campground and wilderness permits (which are free but required for the Sawtooth Wilderness) data is reliable, but trailhead registers — check-in stations where users are supposed to sign in on a logbook — aren’t.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 18 Aug. 2022

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