How to Use handbook in a Sentence

handbook

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  • Nevaeh had pulled a bait-and-switch straight out of the teenage handbook.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 June 2023
  • Strong gave the Big Ten ten days to turn over the handbook and vote tally.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2020
  • And then gave an answer straight out of the Jay Wright handbook.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
  • What is the Hot List if not a handbook for giving the gift of travel?
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2024
  • This should be more than a handbook and a brief overview.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Yeah, the sad sentence in the handbook’s first chapter.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Since the beginning of the year, nearly 60% of the handbook has been reworked.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Many schools provide hard copies of the handbook to students at the beginning of the school year.
    — Lisa Linnell-Olsen, Parents, 10 July 2024
  • Arms said that there's no handbook for making the courts because of how few there are.
    — Ben Schultz, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • Brazel said she’d never been shown the handbook or asked to sign anything like it.
    — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 6 July 2020
  • Think of this as a handbook for any group of friends who aspire to be just like the iconic Golden Girls.
    — Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The rule is written in the student handbook but rarely enforced.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2024
  • There’s no handbook on how to move forward from a moment like this one.
    — Scott Kushner, NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The volume comes in soft cover, stocked like a trusty handbook with how-to pictures.
    — Kate Krader, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Although there would have been room in the kit, there isn’t a dog first aid handbook included.
    — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
  • That's why this classic handbook is a great gift for knitters.
    — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Take a page out of the Princess's stylish handbook and make this your pick for the upcoming wedding on your agenda.
    — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Haim are no strangers to flipping the script in the music industry handbook.
    — Aly Comingore, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The handbook urges Ukrainians to block roads with anything available, from dump trucks to trash, and never to sit around.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
  • The church welfare handbook was rewritten in 1990, when Benson was in frail health.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The captain takes the quick reference handbook, hands it over to the first officer.
    — Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Hatfield hopes the handbook will serve as a guide in a time of crisis for such families.
    — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Mack has a handbook to help train the volunteer chaplains.
    — Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • In July, Porter told the board that the athletic handbook was updated this year for the first time since 2017.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2022
  • There's no real handbook no how to be an author — how to exist in that space.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The scene is straight out of Boots Riley’s madcap moviemaking handbook.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • This handbook covers all the basics from making pie dough from scratch and how to store it for later use.
    — Molly Allen, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
  • No handbook that walked you through your rogues’ gallery or gave you Spider-Man’s cell-phone number.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
  • These guidelines should be listed in a student handbook.
    — Lisa Linnell-Olsen, Parents, 10 July 2024
  • There is debate about how many human fatalities this octopus has caused, but the consensus in one handbook on venomous marine animals published in 1996 was that at least eleven had succumbed at the time.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024

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