Example sentences for: books

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

  • Judge Gore Vidal found that 21 of his own books were on the master list-"more than William Faulkner, Henry James and Joseph Conrad put together."

  • These days, it seems as if half the books in bookstores have the word "best seller" or some variant on the cover or the flap copy, as in "the best-selling author of ..."

  • This kind of story-telling was an important way to perpetuate legends for illiterate devotees, like comic books in stone.

  • Writing in the New York Review of Books , Mark Danner has argued that the administration's predilection for tough talk, coupled with its political timidity, did much to make matters worse in Bosnia.

  • But it is probably the attitudes revealed that already place these books in a bygone age: Arrival at the coast gives us I want to go ashore; carry my loads ; on safari there is Pitch all the white men's tents in line ; and Fanagalo phrases for golf include Move your shadow, Don't rattle the bag , and Have you caddied before?


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