How to Use playbook in a Sentence

playbook

noun
  • He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
  • Each time the old-school playbook would be to kick the ball.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2021
  • But Democrats have said the playbook is not so cut and dry.
    Ella Lee, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Reid’s use of a deep playbook helped the Chiefs make it to the Super Bowl.
    David Hill, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2025
  • For the rest of the game, the IU playbook subtly shifted.
    The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2022
  • And if that doesn't sell you, the vest-as-a-top look is straight out of the Jane Birkin playbook.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 20 June 2022
  • The playbook is the same for Malaysia's grand old party.
    Eileen Ng, ajc, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In many ways, a16z created the playbook for the boom times in tech.
    Jeremy Anderberg, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • Getting a six-month head start on the playbook is a bonus.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Steal not just a page, but the whole playbook of the Whisperers.
    Richard Rys, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
  • There is no playbook for the worst moments in your life.
    Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Is there any question, as Allen writes, the US needs a new Covid-19 playbook for the new year?
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
  • On one hand, McAuliffe’s playbook has worked for others in the past.
    Mary Kate Cary, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The playbook from recent years hasn’t been tossed aside.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
  • Take a page from the Putin playbook: Deny that the jets will ever go to Ukraine.
    WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The playbook, going to school all the time, all that came natural to me.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Mack is smitten and wants to shelve her playbook for good.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Read my full story on the metaverse at work here and see the full Fortune@Work playbook here.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The plan is to spend the spring building a new playbook that will play into the strengths of these players.
    Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Learning the playbook — team chemistry was a big thing for me.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And then 40 years later, that playbook sort of remained the same.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Throw out the playbook Mike Elias has been following the last five years.
    Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
  • Alie-Cox warned him the most challenging part would be the playbook and the blocking schemes.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 17 May 2022
  • If that’s the case, Harden needs to borrow a page from Chris Paul’s playbook.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 13 May 2022
  • It’s one thing to be a quarterback buried in a cave studying videos and the playbook.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The double-wing, then, was merely a part of their goal-line playbook.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • That play was improvised, but put it back in the playbook.
    Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 11 Dec. 2021
  • There was a pandemic playbook last time around and it got pushed to the side and ignored.
    Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 3 June 2022
  • Minter seemed to be getting a little deeper into his playbook Tuesday.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
  • With a six-game deficit in the American League wild card hunt entering play on Monday, the Angels may be only a few series away from repeating their dismaying playbook from 2023.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025

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