How to Use legal pad in a Sentence
legal pad
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Crayons, erasers, folders, glue, paste and legal pads.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
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With her yellow legal pad, Mayra was ready to take down names.
—Washington Post, 28 May 2021
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The same things happened with these legal pads, white with narrow lines.
—Eleanor Hildebrandt, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2019
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Keast kept taking notes on his yellow legal pad, too anxious to look over.
—Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
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Morris retrieved a legal pad from his car and took notes as Biden opened up.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
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Hogan drew up an outline on a legal pad the night before, but left the finish blank.
—Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 10 Apr. 2018
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Or maybe her fantasy of them, as described on the legal pads, is what lives on.
—Meg Walters, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2026
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Elmore set down his legal pad, stood from his chair and started to pace behind to his desk.
—Eli Saslow, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
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Elmore reached into his desk and took out a legal pad to write notes as Core went on.
—Eli Saslow, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
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Near them is a pen and a yellow legal pad, with a few lines scratched in an uneven, boyish hand.
—Sadia Shepard, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
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He will be remembered for his yellow legal pad and his endless lists.
—courant.com, 13 Feb. 2018
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There was nothing to distract me from the blankness of my striped yellow legal pads.
—Fernanda Eberstadt, Vogue, 30 July 2018
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After making his pitch, Bell sees a young man taking notes on a legal pad.
—Alex Shephard, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
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The Gipper reached into his briefcase and pulled out a legal pad.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Aug. 2020
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The ex-cop, in a suit and tie, sat at the defense table most of the week, scribbling notes on a legal pad.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 3 Apr. 2021
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Many of the jurors looked intently at the judge, scribbling notes on white legal pads.
—Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
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Our father got out a yellow legal pad and began taking notes.
—Longreads, 3 Feb. 2026
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Mayra wrote out Liliana’s name and number on her yellow legal pad.
—Washington Post, 28 May 2021
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Hearing this, Pusha runs upstairs and returns with about six legal pads in his hand.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
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The defendant, in a suit and tie, has sat at the defense table, taking notes on a large legal pad.
—Ray Sanchez and Aaron Cooper, CNN, 2 Apr. 2021
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And my mother produced a set of yellow legal pads contained in plastic.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
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One especially bold goat lunged upward, stood on its hind legs, and took a mouthful off my legal pad.
—High School Journalism Institute, oregonlive.com, 17 July 2019
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Chauvin, too, has been wearing a face mask as observes the proceedings and takes notes on a legal pad.
—Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2021
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Find a therapist or support group or get a legal pad and write your anger until the world makes a little more sense.
—Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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But encouraged to write a few chapters, Johnson sat down with a yellow legal pad.
—Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
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He was known to author his own opinions — by hand, on a yellow legal pad — while other justices relied on clerks to help.
—Zach Murdock, courant.com, 1 Nov. 2019
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Keep your personal notes handy in a spreadsheet, Google Doc, or a good old-fashioned legal pad.
—Big Think, 1 Dec. 2025
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Kim, who is studying to become a lawyer, looked very studious with a legal pad, taking notes from the gallery for the entirety of the day.
—Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 22 Apr. 2022
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During the impeachment trial, as colleagues dozed or thumbed through books, Collins filled thick legal pads with notes.
—Author: Griff Witte, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2020
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The raw notes, scribbled on a legal pad, were part of last year’s high-profile trial in which Depp largely prevailed.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
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