How to Use line item in a Sentence

line item

noun
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  • For any event, the venue is one of the most costly line items.
    — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The grant will be a line item in next year’s budget as well.
    — Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Food is one of the biggest line items in many of our budgets.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • None of this is a panacea, and the bill doesn’t overhaul the Defense Health Agency that is a big line item.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
  • That’s real money, more than a lot of line items in the state budget.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Then hand them the receipt and point out the various line items, like sales tax.
    — Rebecca McVane, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 May 2018
  • Not all at once, of course, and not from one person or one line item on a budget.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The cuts were made to create a line item in this year’s budget that would fund legal claims against the town.
    — Jessica Saggio | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The largest line item, according to the city, is for $78 million in paving and street repairs.
    — oregonlive, 18 May 2021
  • In the past year, aluminum prices per ton have jumped 66%, swelling the line item for beverage cans.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The moment that will, for now, stand as the top line item on Rodgers' career résumé in Green Bay.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The most expensive line item of any project can be regret.
    — Barbara Ballinger, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • Dunleavy in the past has not shied away from vetoing line items in the state budget.
    — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Enforcement is by far the biggest line item in the new IRS funding.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The next largest line items were meals and entertainment and a website.
    — oregonlive.com, 15 June 2019
  • The tax bills will include the $75 service fee as a line item, one fee for each occupied dwelling.
    — Cindy Arlinghaus Martin, Cincinnati.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • This is a practical line item that should be discussed with parties from all sides of the road.
    — Robert Morast, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The retention issue that gets a line item, but not a budget.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2020
  • But the switch doesn't put a dent in districts' largest line item: teacher pay and benefits.
    — Sophie Quinton, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The money will come from the stormwater fund's drainage improvements line item.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2022
  • This year’s back-to-school supply list has an important line item: masks.
    — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Until a few weeks ago, child care was the biggest line item in our monthly budget.
    — Maggie Bullock, The Atlantic, 6 May 2020
  • The most expensive line item in the plan is $1.6 million for a new ladder truck for the Fire Department.
    — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2021
  • The transit agency said its budget does not include a line item for the revenue.
    — Clay Anderson, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2021
  • And that line item actually goes up under the Trump tax code.
    — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • There is no line item for Animal Control in the budget.
    — al, 15 Sep. 2021
  • On the expense side of the ledger, the biggest line item, player salaries, is limited since the league enforces what’s known as a hard salary cap.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 8 July 2021
  • Go through it very carefully and review each line item.
    — Scot Meacham Wood, House Beautiful, 2 Feb. 2015
  • So many consumers haven’t felt the pressure of rising rates in one of their biggest line items of spending, again, unlike peers in other countries.
    — Andy Mills, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Furthermore, no existing line items are immune to review.
    — Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024

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