How to Use notebook in a Sentence

notebook

noun
  • Take out your notebook and write down some of your ideas.
  • She kept a notebook for her poetry.
  • On the emerging menu, choose to save the notebook as an ENEX file.
    Justin Pot, Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The notebook was found near his body, along with a backpack and a gun.
    ABC News, 22 June 2022
  • Books are checked out by writing the book’s name in a notebook.
    NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • There’s been a lot of Red Sox news in the last few weeks and, with that, many notebook pages filled with scrawls.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Much of it looks like a zine or a researcher’s notebook.
    Ryan Lee Wong, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The friend sat in the backseat beside a pile of Thomas’s notebooks and riffed through pages.
    Dave Hyde, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • One death for the one locked for days in his room, drawing lines in a notebook, over and over and over.
    Rick Barot, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The sleeve in the back provides space for paper notes or a slim notebook.
    Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Here’s the link to the girls’ volleyball notebook. Notes . . .
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Jacob closed his notebook and held it out in front of him.
    Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The charging system is the size of a notebook, Schatz says, and weighs about 3 kilograms.
    IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2023
  • And this book took me about four or five full spiral notebooks.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Grab a notebook and a pen, set a timer for three minutes, and journal.
    Tess Brigham, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Couldn't be luckier than to have all of you here to open your notebooks.
    CBS News, 18 June 2023
  • Here’s the girls’ basketball notebook looking at the Comets’ rise in the City Section.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The notebook belonged to one of those children — Uziyah Garcia, a 10-year-old.
    The New York Times The New York Times, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Scribbles in my notebook after the Browns drafted in the fourth round: 1.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2022
  • On the last few pages of the largest notebook are some hangman diagrams.
    The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • In the 1970s, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman jotted down a thought in a notebook.
    Hillary Chute, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Walking through such a space scrawling in a notebook with a felt-tip earned glances full of pity.
    Eliza McGraw, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
  • When asked about his creative process, Willems waves a black notebook.
    Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The top half of the compartment can be packed with a light change of clothes, books, pens, notebooks, and a 13-inch laptop or tablet.
    Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Here’s the link to CIF state notebook that has a list of college commitments. Notes. . .
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • My little girl handed me her notebook and went and took her place in line.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The first 80 percent of the process, for me, is scribbling in notebooks and structuring it all out.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
  • Whatever that looks like for you—an app, a notebook, a Google Doc—is fine!
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 27 Sep. 2023
  • No life unnoticed In a worn blue notebook, Gilbert Maombi Sebuhoro keeps a list of the dead.
    Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Kindle Scribe Amazon’s priciest Kindle option, the Scribe offers the best of an e-reader and a notebook all in one device.
    Sarah Felbin, SELF, 9 Oct. 2024

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