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How to use bookmark in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Bookmark means a strip of material used to mark a place in a book. Example: “He placed a bookmark on page 234, which had an interesting footnote from the author.”

Examples of bookmark by meaning

nounA strip of material used to mark a place in a book.

  • He placed a bookmark on page 234, which had an interesting footnote from the author.

More sentences with bookmark

  • How do I unfavorite an online bookmark?From the entry unfavorite
  • Physical bookmarks based on collectional artefacts and metadata actions are proposed.2017, Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, page 57. From the entry collectional
  • In the browser, WebApps share a cookie store, bookmarks, and history.2017 September 6, Georgios Kambourakis; Asaf Shabtai; Constantinos Kolias, Dimitrios Damopoulos, Intrusion Detection and Prevention for…. From the entry webapp
  • Last December, Yahoo announced plans to “sunset” more well-known services, including the pioneering social bookmarking service del.icio.us.2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist. From the entry sunset
  • These tools include blogs, message boards, podcasts, micro blogs, lifestreams, bookmarks, networks, communities, wikis, and vlogs.2010, John P. Girard, JoAnn L. Girard, Social Knowledge, page 35. From the entry lifestream
  • She kept the bookmarks firmly on the “poo” dogs.2017, Teresa Toten, Beware That Girl, Hot Key Books, Bonnier Zaffre Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry poo
  • That same text also appeared in a “couture inspired” jacket, complete with deckle edges and French flaps to use as bookmarks.2013 February 13, Janine Barchas, The New York Times. From the entry French flap
  • I love the used books that I pick up for a couple of dollars at Goodwill or a used-bookstore, with someone else’s inscriptions and underlines and bookmarks.2022 January 11, Laurie Hertzel, “In praise of physical books”, in Ledger-Enquirer, page 8A. From the entry used-bookstore
  • The browser buttons, shown in Figure 7-1, are simply links that you can place on the same toolbar that holds your most frequently used bookmarks (known as "favorites" in Microspeak).2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: the missing manual, page 174. From the entry Microspeak

Meaning of bookmark

  1. noun A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
  2. noun A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
  3. noun A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap.

Full definition of bookmark

Questions about bookmark in a sentence

How do you use bookmark in a sentence?
Bookmark is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He placed a bookmark on page 234, which had an interesting footnote from the author.”
What is a short sentence with bookmark?
“How do I unfavorite an online bookmark?”
What does bookmark mean?
Bookmark means a strip of material used to mark a place in a book.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookmark (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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