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.
  • Tell me more about the notebook.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
  • The notebooks had the names of his sources.
    Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • How many great songs are on old tapes or lyrics in notebooks?
    Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Red Beard made a mark in his notebook.
    Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • Back in the day, my habit was to write in cheap notebooks with a good pen.
    Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
  • All of this work was done on chalkboards and in notebooks.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Others soon find the notebook and write their own truths in it.
    Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2021
  • And this book took me about four or five full spiral notebooks.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
  • How many styles of notebooks have there been throughout the show?
    Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Books are checked out by writing the book’s name in a notebook.
    NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • This could be for a tablet, a notebook, or a trackpad.
    New Atlas, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Sanders also wrote about that in his notebook.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes my crew-mates would draw or write in my notebooks, too.
    Jane Ciabattari august 19, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The notebook was found near his body, along with a backpack and a gun.
    ABC News, 22 June 2022
  • Next to the stash was a notebook with rules for smoking the drug in the house.
    Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Went and bought a spiral notebook.
    David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Little did fans know how much that had been on her mind – and in her notebook.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Bandz was stuck in the house and started writing a song in her notebook.
    Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025
  • On the desk by the door, there was a sparkly blue spiral notebook.
    Ann Givens, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The sleeve in the back provides space for paper notes or a slim notebook.
    Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Like the scribbled notes of teenage girls in the margins of a notebook.
    Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Use a budgeting app or even just a notebook.
    Bruce Helmer, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Couldn't be luckier than to have all of you here to open your notebooks.
    CBS News, 18 June 2023
  • These cards have on them thirty or so pictures or thoughts from my notebooks.
    David Greig september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Hennessy-Fiske wore a press badge around her neck and held a notebook.
    Andy Mannix, Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • Grab a notebook and a pen, set a timer for three minutes, and journal.
    Tess Brigham, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Here’s our Week 6 Bills notebook.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Make Lists Add lists in your phone or a notebook of where items are stored.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 10 Jan. 2026

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