How to Use ledger in a Sentence

ledger

noun
  • Let’s just scratch both from the ledger.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Build the ledger beside the road.
    Anu Adedoyin Adasolum, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Her leather satchel bounced at her hip, her ledger safe inside.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Five of the six runs in the inning were charged to his ledger.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
  • And her name will be in a ledger somewhere along with her son.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • The money was found along with a ledger with pages torn out, the source said.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
  • If so, then even worse than a year ago, no matter the won-loss ledger.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Korea shows the other side of the ledger.
    Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • James Frink felt that shift from both sides of a business ledger.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Still, Ohtani should have had only two runs on his ledger, not three.
    Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Happ came into score and the Cubs added a fourth run to their ledger.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • So who could end up on the wrong side of the free agency ledger this winter?
    Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Rogers is an option as well, with 28 saves on his ledger for the year.
    Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But some things will go wrong, and that should be enough to pile a few more losses on their ledger.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Prince Philip earned his keep with a sense of humor, at least in my ledger book.
    Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2021
  • So to me, his ledger is one win and one loss, with next season as the rubber match.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The damage was more pronounced on the other side of the ledger.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 12 July 2022
  • The red-ink side of the ledger turns out to be more interesting.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2021
  • But headline figures still miss much of what never shows up in ledgers.
    Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The specific charges in the hush money case were about checks and ledgers.
    Michelle L. Price, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2025
  • There were two other big items on the ledger for the news conference.
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Poring over the spending ledger from that era revealed a lot.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • For airlines, the business case is compelling on both sides of the ledger.
    Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • Moniak should add to his home run ledger and make his home run bet a winner tonight.
    Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Distance a joist spans between the support beams and ledgers.
    Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2026
  • Adams' win is the most high-profile notch on the pragmatists' ledger.
    Jonathan Lemire and Karen Matthews, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • Each cow or sheep killed by a wolf is a number, hard and fast, in the loss column of their ledger.
    Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2018
  • UConn needs to punch first in these high-profile matchups to get on the right side of the ledger.
    Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Many buried there are unnamed in the old ledger of burials and were laid to rest in unmarked graves.
    al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Think of it as the kind of ledger or database anyone might use to keep track of what goes out and what comes in.
    Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021

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