Example sentences for: bookshelves

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

  • The books there on the bookshelves told their stories,Line after line, all of them evenly spaced,And spaces between the words.

  • This decent elegant fellow human beingWas seated in virtue, character, disability,Behind her the order of the ranged bookshelves,The windows monitored by Venetian blinds--"These can be raised or lowered; numerous slats,Horizontally arranged, and parallel,Which can be tilted so as to admitPrecisely the desired light or air."

  • In short, it's the perfect purchase or gift for those among us with bare kitchen bookshelves and larger culinary ambitions that dwell in latency, stymied by a grave--though common--psychological flaw: being unable to commit to a single technique or ethnic cuisine at a time.

  • The results are seen on the bookshelves of bookshops throughout the world: adequate but largely pedestrian bilingual dictionaries and a scattering of monolingual works that have been resurrected by greedy publishers who have engaged dryasdust editors to update out-dated, out-of-copyright dictionaries in order to make a fast buck.

  • Friends would thank me with polite puzzlement when I gave them great children's books I knew they'd love--then would tuck them away in the bookshelves for when their kids were a bit older.


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