How to Use by the book in a Sentence

by the book

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• White claims that the county has followed state law and done things by the book.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2025
• There’s often some kind of hitch, but still, most agents are straight arrows who play by the book.
  — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
• Bondi, though, insists everything will be done by the book.
  — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
• It shouldn't be negotiated up or down or anything like that, just by the book.
  — Lydia Mee, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
• The operation wasn’t by the book — and those in law enforcement know it.
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
• The lens used to view those who clearly handle things by the book in the sport always is smaller, it should be stated.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• That stuffy chief who has been doing things by the book his whole career and has had it up to here with our loose-cannon shenanigans?
  — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
• Smith defended the maneuver as lawful and by the book.
  — Eric Tucker The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 6 Jan. 2025
• Neither did doing everything by the book.
  — Ryan Brennan march 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Mar. 2026
• Listen to this article David Wright has always played it by the book.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
• Seduced by the book, Suzanne had asked Berl to introduce her to its author.
  — Mark Polizzoti june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
• Most baseball scholars would take issue with that approach, but then Perez never played by the book.
  — Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2022
• But Kim had been by the book, a moral and upstanding citizen and a damn fine attorney.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• Later, it was picked by the book review’s editors as one of the ten best books of 1983.
  — Aryeh Neier, The New York Review of Books, 22 June 2023
• The Humana people paying the bills seem to be doing everything by the book.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• It is inspired by the book of the same name by Kate Andersen Brower.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
• Always do everything by the book and follow all of Amazon’s terms of service.
  — Duffy Young, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• Like many young men, Lyon, who was 15 when On the Road came out, was inspired by the book.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Altman will sign copies and will be joined by the book’s illustrator, Reesa Baxter.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
• Inspired by the book of the same name, Ryan set out to write the script and recalled how the studio gave him creative freedom to achieve his goal.
  — Karen Idelson, Variety, 6 June 2023
• The script and lyrics are by the book’s author Judith Viorst, with music by Shelly Markham.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2024
• In a town that does things by the book, Urban is intent on trying new things, tinkering around with formula.
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 23 Dec. 2024
• The student hit by the book was taken by ambulance to a hospital, according to the office.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
• While Jordan was captivated by the book, Chang had to level with her about some harsh, real-world truths about it.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• He’s put in hard work, doing things by the book, and focusing on his family at the 21st District.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 21 May 2025
• The one-square-mile municipality with no stores, no city hall, no bars and one church was struck down in a special election held strictly by the book.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
• Like many other students at her high school, Aditi is powerfully affected by the book ban.
  — Tahneer Oksman, NPR, 12 Mar. 2026
• At the same time, even if everything was done by the book, the politicization of the whole fracas means that blowback is inevitable regardless.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• There is neither a dramatic twist nor a novel conclusion; the people who seem most guilty by the book’s end were the same ones who stood trial over a decade ago.
  — Krithika Varagur, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
• Spagnolo, who took the helm of the department in 2018, insists the police played this case by the book, even all those years ago.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025