How to Use rule book in a Sentence

rule book

noun

• The funny thing about this career is that there's no rule book.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 June 2023
• The funny thing about this career is that there's no rule book.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
• The United States and others said the rule book held the solution.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• Warring parties of all stripes appear to have thrown the rule book out the window.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2023
• That meant those elections followed the rule book written in 2013.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
• Pretty was not a compliment but an insult in the Lee rule book.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• Starting lineups for the All-Star Race will be set via the rule book and released Sunday morning.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 19 May 2024
• Over time, those skills form a sort of mental rule book about music, specific to the culture in which you’re born.
  — Katie Lauer, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
• There is no rule book to a true, heartfelt connection with someone else.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
• Owners have to get creative with horse names, since no two horses can share a name, according to the the Jockey Club rule book.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 4 May 2024
• Set during the Second World War, the novel turns on the question of what happens to women, as guardians of virtue, when history tears up the rule book.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The number refers to the chapter in the police department rule book that covers the use of deadly force by officers.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• But there's still plenty of season to go—and Succession has never followed any kind of rule book.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 4 Apr. 2023
• In it, Jason Segal plays a therapist who, while grieving his wife, decides to throw out the rule book and tell his patients what to do.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• So there are a few key considerations CEOs should weigh up before ripping up the rule book, Davis says.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 9 Dec. 2023
• The Bible might not necessarily be a rule book like in The Fairly Oddparents.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
• In building a first-of-its-kind submersible with a carbon-fiber hull, Rush wasn’t following the naval engineering rule book.
  — Alex Christian, WIRED, 29 June 2023
• From ball courts that pulse with energy to sprawling fields of dreams; from the grand stages of the Olympics to the hallowed halls of sports management, these women are rewriting the rule book and making the realm of sports better each day.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 5 Feb. 2024
• The hardware implementation of a Turing machine can be organized around a rule book and a notepad.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2023
• Every year, thousands of participants brush up on the contest’s 17-page rule book and then attempt to plough, plant, and fertilize their way into the record books.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
• This comes after owners shook up the rule book by voting to outlaw the controversial ‘hip-drop’ tackle on Monday.
  — Sam Joseph, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• Across social media, culinary pioneers are plugging in their waffle irons and throwing out the rule book.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 17 Mar. 2023
• There is nothing in the rule book that prohibits a player from making political statements.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• The official rule book definition of the strike zone is laughably ignored, and interpreted by each umpire in his own way.
  — Jimmy Golen, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2023
• The only way to prevent similar championships is for the rule book to give franchises real pause before spending big.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2023
• By the 1990s, the rule book was hundreds of pages long, with lines as specific as which fork to use at dinner and directives to not speak about boyfriends in front of fans, according to Texas Monthly’s podcast America’s Girls.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
• As defined in the NFL rule book, a hip-drop tackle is when a defender grabs the runner with both hands or wraps him with both arms, then drags down the offensive player by swiveling and dropping his hips and/or lower body.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• In order to add a new skill to the rule book, gymnasts are required to complete it at a major international competition, like a world championship or the Olympics.
  — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
• The play has been legal since 2005, after the NFL removed language from its rule book that prohibited pushing offensive players.
  — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2023
• Opening golf to new players Golf, with its thick rule book and unwritten etiquette — no stepping in someone’s line on the green, and please replace your divots — can be difficult for newcomers.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2023

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024