How to Use ledger in a Sentence

ledger

noun
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  • 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 blockchain works like a ledger in which every bitcoin transaction is stored in what is called a block.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Querying any one of the three opens a ledger of payments for things like consulting, lodging and travel, honoraria.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Staffing often represents the largest operating cost on a nursing home’s ledger.
    — Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
  • There’s no need for a bank, government, brokerage, etc where there is a decentralized public ledger.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • So, yes, Wade could have come out with more financially, but possibly less on his roster and on the championship ledger.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2022
  • On the other side of the ledger, average California wages rose 20.9% in those four years.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 17 June 2024
  • Robinson, who died in September, was more than a longtime teammate and hot corner hoover who kept runs off Palmer’s pitching ledger.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Bitcoin operates on what is known as a blockchain, essentially a public ledger, which contains the history of every transaction.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 2 Jan. 2024
  • So treasured were the wet nurses that there is evidence in Queen Charlotte’s ledger of her being paid a handsome $255 yearly pension.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • On the surprisingly strong side of the ledger sits the Indonesian rupiah, which has depreciated only about 4.5% against the dollar this year.
    — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Five of the six runs in the inning were charged to his ledger.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
  • Signs of a soft landing are emerging in Texas — on the spending side of the ledger.
    — Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Before 2022 was done, Ledecky added two more world records to her ledger.
    — CBS News, 30 Dec. 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
  • There’s little debate as to which side of the ledger Tigers coach Kim Mulkey falls on.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Each page has the rulings of a records book, as if Klara had repurposed a ledger.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Many buried there are unnamed in the old ledger of burials and were laid to rest in unmarked graves.
    — al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • On the other side of the ledger, the gig economy is burgeoning.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The big question is whether the Bow plant will be added to the renewable or fossil fuel side of the ledger.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In a season of bad losses, add one more to the Miami Heat’s ledger.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
  • That hardly matters to the Tigers, who now have three quad-four losses on their ledger.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Last month's result added yet another UK win to the ledger in the all-time series.
    — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 11 Feb. 2023
  • On the veggie side of the ledger (tomatoes are a fruit), consider broccoli.
    — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Blockchain is best known as the ledger of cryptocurrencies.
    — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Predictably, he was asked one last time about his desire to add a Super Bowl to his ledger.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • On the opposite side of the ledger, donations to the company have been steady.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Users pay a premium for those, and a cut of that revenue gets logged to OpenAI’s ledger.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But what was he supposed to put in his personal ledger?
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Police also found a ledger with states written down for pick-up and drop-off sites for dogs.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2023

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