How to Use logbook in a Sentence

logbook

noun
  • The logbooks from New England can help fill some of those gaps.
    — Benjamin Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024
  • Perhaps as their race or their people, the way it was written in the logbook.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Inside, a makeshift counter holds a logbook for stand locations and check-ins.
    — Adam Moore, Outdoor Life, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The old paper logbooks in use since the 1930s can no longer be used.
    — Anthony Sorci, sacbee, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Cantrell said each unit has a logbook for checks and a roll call for when youths are off-unit -- at school or in the dining hall.
    — Ginny Monk, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The handwriting in the logbook also matched the neat script on the message.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2018
  • What worries him more these days is the coming of electronic logbooks.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 23 May 2017
  • Its volunteers have been noting client changes in paper logbooks for decades.
    — Howard Lipin/san Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
  • And keep some sort of logbook, your health passport, with that information.
    — Lacy Scarmana, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The book's content, which is written in vignettes, was pulled from the logbook Egenes kept at the time.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • At the beginning of our careers, most of us start using a paper logbook.
    — Charlie Page, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The miles have piled on quickly, and not surprisingly, the logbook is filling up with praise.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The miles have piled on quickly, and not surprisingly, the logbook is filling up with praise.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 11 Feb. 2022
  • All staff wear masks and gloves, and daily temperatures are recorded in a logbook.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The logbooks were like an early version of social media in which people shared their lives for strangers to come across.
    — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The sergeant will keep a logbook to track the date and time that a liaison cellphone was issued and when it was returned.
    — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The logbooks with thousands of names crossed out, as if a cruel accountant only measured death.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • There were some minor quibbles in our logbook about dull steering feel, but the biggest hang-up with this Niro was its price.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 28 June 2023
  • Partridge also checked the logbook for Parrish’s name, and found that someone had whited it out.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • There’s also the enormity of moments described in the logbooks.
    — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • And once again, the logbook contains fresh accolades for just how blissful the 740i is.
    — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 16 June 2017
  • Some familiar nits have already cropped up in the BRZ's logbook.
    — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Children, armed with a mission logbook, will help OceanX crew members search for a giant squid.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 25 June 2021
  • These records can be maintained in a spreadsheet, paper flight logbook or one of a couple software drone logbooks that are available.
    — Brian Pitre, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • As any self-respecting science lab does, the group had a logbook at the coffee station to record data about what made the best coffee.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Steve Duffey copied the case number from the logbook and rode the elevator down to the fifth-floor central records room.
    — Isabel Seliger, ProPublica, 24 May 2021
  • Accelerating hard up to those speeds led to many complaints in the Insight's logbook.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2020
  • This revving, frisky 45 is a logbook containing the codes and call signs of the postwar dispensation.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • The entries, each appended with a detailed list of the stops the patient had made, in sparse, sterile language, read like a ship’s logbook.
    — Max S. Kim, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Shortly before midnight, Kerry goes to the wheelhouse and sees it’s been over two hours since there’s been an entry in the logbook.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025

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