How to Use bookkeeper in a Sentence

bookkeeper

noun
  • The bookkeeper told me the owner loved me.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
  • His wife worked as a seamstress and bookkeeper for the business.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • His father worked for a propane business and his mother was a bookkeeper.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 July 2024
  • His father owned a hardware store, and his mother was a bookkeeper.
    — Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
  • She is retired but spent her career working as a banker, a part-time teacher and a bookkeeper.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
  • His father had a glass and mirror business, his mother had been a bookkeeper.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 29 July 2020
  • At the time, Jean was working as a part-time bookkeeper for one of Trebek's friends.
    — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The sandwich spreads are controlled by the bookkeeper’s family to this day.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The future first lady helped her husband with the business by working as a bookkeeper for the farm.
    — Julia Manchester, The Hill, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Her husband, a bookkeeper, said many are in the same situation and hope their high bills are addressed.
    — Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2021
  • For those who are too busy to do this, hire a bookkeeper, which can be a lifesaver come tax time, or worse, if you are ever audited.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • McKenzie also works on the side as a bookkeeper for a catering business.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Nuril relied on her $75-a-month bookkeeper wage at the school to help support her family.
    — CNN, 17 July 2019
  • A lot of startups have no bookkeeper, CFO, or finance team.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025
  • His mother was a stenographer and journalist who later worked as the bookkeeper and cashier at the store.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Pugh had served as the league’s treasurer/bookkeeper since 2017.
    — Warren Kulo | [email protected], al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Rick’s wife, Judie, is the bookkeeper at the business, and their son Aaron is the vice president.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Baker worked at the Electric Blue and served as the manager and bookkeeper for the club.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • Her mother, Rachel (Frank) Ross, was a bookkeeper for the shoe business and helped out at the farm.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The bookkeeper refused, the government says, so Gates did it himself.
    — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2018
  • From a camp bed in a foreign country, the 40-year-old bookkeeper thinks about restarting her and her children’s lives from square one.
    — Monika Scislowska and Rafal Niedzielski, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The bill grounds itself in the analogy of a bookkeeper and a bookstore, which is now a far cry from the current state of our internet.
    — Tiffany Ng, Vox, 9 May 2024
  • Dan's got 10 hours to kill the Russian mob's bookkeeper in exchange for the antidote.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 May 2021
  • Bout, the son of a mechanic and a bookkeeper, drew a warm welcome from Russia on Thursday.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The upside of paying your lawyer, bookkeeper or IT support person?
    — Forbes Money Team, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Joshua Baker worked at the Electric Blue and served as the manager and bookkeeper for the club.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2024
  • As bookkeeper for the county, the auditor cuts the checks for the county, overseeing the payment of bills and payroll.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 27 July 2021
  • Yes, the $10,000 bill was paid two weeks earlier, the bookkeeper informed her.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
  • He’d been hired as a bookkeeper for First National Stores in nearby Kearny.
    — Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
  • This year there will be 781 animals at the fair, says Chris Turner, the fair’s bookkeeper.
    — Sue Kiesewetter, Cincinnati.com, 20 July 2017

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