Example sentences for: bookshelves

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

  • 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.

  • Africana is as least as good as the two or three other encyclopedias of black history and culture that sit in storage while I wait for my shoulder to heal enough so I can build bookshelves.

  • Some of them will go to the Nixon Library, and some will be on bookshelves in the (very small and modest) house my wife and I own in Malibu, a place he found beguiling because he had always wanted to live by the ocean and write.

  • 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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