How to Use rule book in a Sentence

rule book

noun
  • The rule book has been thrown out the window.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Trimming the tree doesn't come with a rule book.
    — Lex Goldstein, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The funny thing about this career is that there's no rule book.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 June 2023
  • The funny thing about this career is that there's no rule book.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • There was no plan, there was no strategy, there was no rule book.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The call is wildly harsh, but that’s how the rule book is written.
    — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
  • There’s a rule book that’s been given to us thousands of years ago.
    — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • That said, there’s no rule book for graduation.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • Sanders read and reread the rule book and took the same weekly rules test as the league’s officials.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Warring parties of all stripes appear to have thrown the rule book out the window.
    — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2023
  • There is no rule book to a true, heartfelt connection with someone else.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
  • As always, consider this a framework rather than a rule book.
    — Iman Balagam, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The flip side of that is that there's such a rule book of storytelling that at times feels limiting.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Pretty was not a compliment but an insult in the Lee rule book.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The aim was to create the rule book of last resort for English-language users.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The contrasts with the rule book zone called by umpires, which says the zone is a cube and a strike is a pitch that crosses any part.
    — Ronald Blum, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Tossing out the rule book, Sony used the month to open a comic book movie, Venom.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The contrasts with the rule book zone called by umpires, which says the zone is a cube, and a strike is a pitch that crosses any part.
    — Ronald Blum, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Over time, those skills form a sort of mental rule book about music, specific to the culture in which you’re born.
    — Katie Lauer, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • That meant those elections followed the rule book written in 2013.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The United States and others said the rule book held the solution.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • An incomplete pass results in a loss of down, and the ball returns to the previous spot, the rule book states.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
  • While some saw it as cheating, the bat was proved legal under MLB’s rule book.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The rule book, created in a bygone era, calls for the farthest edge of a coach’s box to be 90 feet from home plate.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • According to the rule book, the inspector continues to keep an eye out during the game.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Once a candidate applies for membership, a rule book is sent to the candidates and must pass an open book quiz.
    — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
  • There are three books for the game; a core rule book, a guide to Gotham City and a collection of adventures.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • But there's still plenty of season to go—and Succession has never followed any kind of rule book.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Two decades later the McLaren F1 rewrote the supercar rule book.
    — Trinity Francis, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Unfortunately, the official scorer and the rule book don’t see it the same way.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024

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