by the book
Example Sentences
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“It’s Auntie North’s office. She lets me do my homework here. Lately she’s been so busy, I spend all night here until she’s done with work. Things have been quiet. There isn’t a lot of information about Ella St. Clay. Who she was or why she wrote this book. Sometimes it helps finding things out about the author to search for clues. You must see magical things all the time if you were deemed worthy by the book.”
From Literature
It was on the back of the checkout card with the other kids who’d been chosen by the book.
From Literature
She is the author of nine books, including "100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet," "How to Raise a Reader," "My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues," "By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life," "Parenting, Inc.,"
“Nothing’s ever perfect, and anything can be improved on. And what we’ve been working on is making this operation safer, more efficient, by the book.”
From Los Angeles Times
But if you do this, you must do it right—professionally, with restraint, by the book, in the full spirit of the law.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
