How to Use on the books in a Sentence

on the books

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• With so many more eyes on the books these days, did anything open up a new point of view for you at all?
  — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026
• That is a blue state that does not have a law on the books protecting women’s sports.
  — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
• Georgia already has a law on the books to make the change should Congress act.
  — Tia Mitchell, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
• The Seahawks are in sound shape with the salary cap, but their team build will evolve with much bigger contracts on the books.
  — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
• Lawmakers need to overhaul hundreds of laws still on the books from the Assad era.
  — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2026
• Some of the restrictions enjoined by the decision have been on the books since 1997.
  — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2026
• There’s already an HR meeting on the books for Friday, which gives the episode some nice structure.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026
• In 1913 there were no laws on the books about all sorts of harmful things, because of course they hadn’t been invented yet.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 July 2026
• More high-profile road games are already on the books for the Hornets beyond 2026.
  — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2026
• This is what CoreWeave is seeing with these A100s now on the books to be used for three more years, at least.
  — CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
• Some schools across the state already started adopting these policies last school year, and some even had existing restrictions on the books.
  — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
• Some elements of the announcement reinforce standards that were already on the books.
  — Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
• Jamie Lynn Spears also appeared in the series, which was based on the books by Sheryl Woods.
  — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026
• Right now, 27 states have bans on transgender athlete participation on the books.
  — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 1 July 2026
• Even in states with no ban on the books, circulation rose by about 11%, nearly as much as in the states where the bans actually happened.
  — Naveen Basavaraj, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026
• South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming also put similar requirements on the books for this year's midterms.
  — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
• For many organizations, real estate is the second-largest cost on the books, behind only payroll.
  — Micah Remley, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026
• Indiana currently has no guidelines for these chemicals found in sludge despite lawmakers trying to get some on the books.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 7 Aug. 2026
• As with other academy graduates that have been sold by Chelsea, any fee will count as straight profit on the books, which is obviously a plus.
  — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 4 July 2026
• If priorities shift, Arteta could already have a short-term answer on the books in Mikel Merino.
  — Art De Roché, New York Times, 17 July 2026
• Twenty-three states have laws on the books that ban betting on elections, according to Pew Research Center.
  — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
• By 2015, 14 other states had some kind of cursive instruction requirement on the books.
  — Mary Jean Tecce Decarlo, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026
• For Kruse’s association, this is the earliest harvest on the books in the last 30 to 40 years.
  — Lizzie Kane july 24, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026
• Nick Pope remains on the books, though Aaron Ramsdale returned to Southampton following his loan.
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
• The National Sawdust show has been on the books for quite some time, and Dylan surely knew that Lage wasn’t a long-term band member.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
• The band, which has recently gone through lineup changes following the departure of Stephen Drozd, has only one concert on the books for the rest of the year.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026
• Plus, keeping both execs would have left two hefty salaries on the books, and the new company — saddled with around $80 billion of debt — is going to have to enact massive cost cuts, and fast.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
• That represented a major increase from one SCA on the books at the time of Micron's March earnings call.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026
• Nurse and Trouba will be in their mid-30s by the end of this decade and will still be on the books just as the Sharks’ young core is ascending and becoming more expensive.
  — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 1 July 2026
• That money is now showing up on the books of big companies like Home Depot, Amazon, and Walmart, each with its own approach.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026