LEDGER in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for LEDGER, such as:

1. Now turn that up in the ledger.
2. Yes, the credit side of our ledger is amply filled.
3. Morrel examined the ledgers, opened the portfolio, and counted the money.
4. There also the family idled while Ellen's quill scratched across her ledgers.
5. He does not rule out a sudden breakthrough that might cut the Gordian knot and make such ledgers more scalable.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEDGER
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ledger
 n.  book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal
Classic Sentence:
1  The Englishman entered, and found Morrel seated at a table, turning over the formidable columns of his ledger, which contained the list of his liabilities.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
2  Morrel closed the ledger, arose, and offered a seat to the stranger; and when he had seen him seated, resumed his own chair.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
3  Morrel opened the door, and closed it behind his son; then, crossing the anteroom, went to his desk on which he placed the pistols, and pointed with his finger to an open ledger.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
4  In this ledger was made out an exact balance-sheet of his affair's.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
5  Willie, the counter boy, was reluctant to give her the large dirty-backed ledger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  She pulled a back page out of the ledger and began copying the list of debtors who had made no payments in several months.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  The bank is the universal government credit-account, the ledger in which every individual's earnings and spendings are balanced.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
8  Now turn that up in the ledger.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
9  So it will be until the Great Recorder sums me up and closes my ledger account with a balance to profit or loss.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  Morrel examined the ledgers, opened the portfolio, and counted the money.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
11  It is a fine name to inscribe on my ledgers, and my cashier was quite proud of it when I explained to him who the Cavalcanti were.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects.
12  There also the family idled while Ellen's quill scratched across her ledgers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  At length there opened a door, and before him he saw a study full of portfolios, ledgers, and dispatch-boxes, with, standing behind them, the gravely menacing figure of the Prince.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  Yes, the credit side of our ledger is amply filled.
2  He does not rule out a sudden breakthrough that might cut the Gordian knot and make such ledgers more scalable.