Example sentences for: bookshop

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

  • The university bookshop — known locally as book rooms — on College Street is the best in town.

  • The Winding Stair on Ormond Quay is an interesting, labyrinthine secondhand bookshop with a café.

  • Hogwarts pupils don't buy their textbooks from Amazon.com or a Barnes & Noble superstore but from a quaint old bookshop on Diagon Alley called Flourish and Blotts.

  • But if Grant speaks through jaws aristocratically locked, his William Thacker is meant to embody a scruffy, downwardly mobile lifestyle; as a consequence of his integrity, he must share a flat with a cretinously vulgar couch potato called Spike (Rhys Ifans) and face a stream of dim customers who refuse to accept that his bookshop carries neither Dickens nor Grisham.

  • In this Upper West Side update of Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner , Ryan plays a "lemony-fresh children's bookshop owner" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ) about to be put out of business by the discount megabookstore owner Hanks.


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