Example sentences for: bookish

How can you use “bookish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The next assault is different, an attack on a concrete Nazi "pillbox" that's barely glimpsed through the thick smoke, the action viewed through the eyes of the squadron's skinny, bookish translator (Jeremy Davies).

  • After all, Gore--like Clinton--is an unusually bookish politician, one who reads serious tomes on serious subjects and even tries to be a bit of an authority himself.

  • ); Apache helicopters; Ibrahim Rugova ("How can the bookish head of Kosovo's independence movement live down the shame of being shown on Serbian TV with Milosevic?

  • Once the interview began, this ideal FW would seem as familiar as an old friend, so that the INF always spoke in everyday terms instead of bookish formal ones.

  • In fact, we often know next to nothing about his characters, except that they are lonely, bookish rolling stones who gather no moss, spending several hours a day wandering around Lisbon and daydreaming.


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