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How to use bookshelf in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Bookshelf means a shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference. Example: “Since he bought the book, it's just been sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust.”

Examples of bookshelf by meaning

nounA shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.

  • Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102

More sentences with bookshelf

  • Since he bought the book, it's just been sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust.From the entry gather dust
  • There was just a bed, a wardrobe and some bookshelves.From the entry there
  • The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.From the entry tome
  • There was a lovely leather-bound Torah on the bookshelf.From the entry Torah
  • After several visits from his darling nephews, Mike's bookshelves were childproof; all breakables and valuable books had been moved out of reach.From the entry childproof
  • Newton said that she worried trends like bookshelf wealth encourage overconsumption.2024 January 15, Madison Malone Kircher, “Do You Have 'Bookshelf Wealth'?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry bookshelf wealth
  • These four problems, spaghettiing through our minds and bookshelves, make for crippling limitations of literary sensibility.2005, John Lennard, “Punctuation”, in The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism, 2nd edition…. From the entry spaghetti
  • Bookshelves groan under the bloated weight of tomes detailing Great Straight Marriages.1979 February 10, John Mitzel, “Crimes of Passion”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 13. From the entry groan
  • With my back against my hulking bookshelf, I, now in ambedo, watched the rain drip-drop on the window pane.2021, Nishita Patil, MEET YOURSELF, SpotWrite Publications, page 12. From the entry ambedo
  • The walls of Jupiter’s study were lined with bookshelves and framed photographs, mostly of strange landscapes and people.2017 October 10, Jessica Townsend, “Happy Hour at the Hotel Deucalion”, in Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Sydney, N.S.W.…. From the entry ginger
  • Family photos line the walls, and an armlong section of one bookshelf is devoted to his father’s works.2007 July 17, Ben Sisario, “An Avant-Gardist’s View of America, as Seen From the Back Seat”, in New York Times. From the entry armlong
  • Now, if you're the type of person who quietly agonises over what people might think of your carefully curated, Instagrammable bookshelf, don't worry!2018, Alfred Tong, “Introduction”, in The Thinking Man's Guide to Life: How to Network, De-stress, Make Friends and Everything in-between…. From the entry Instagrammable
  • That just-a-moment had hardly died away before Father turned and Hemingwayed Bogoljub so forcefully that the tobacconist was sent flying against the bookshelves.2010, Sasa Stanisic, How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone. From the entry Hemingway
  • A trawl through Kargil’s backstreets turns up underpant sellers, flip-flops made from recycled tyres, haberdashers, barbers and severed goats’ heads displayed on bookshelves.2008, Laura Stone, “Leh–Srinagar Highway (India)”, in Himalaya by Bike, Trailblazer Publications, →ISBN, parts 2–8 (Route Outlines), page…. From the entry underpant
  • Over-all view of the author's home "entertainment center" which includes a TV set and bookshelves in addition to the amplifier and speaker enclosure.1956, Radio & Television News: Volume 56, page 46. From the entry entertainment center
  • Though the “bookshelf wealth” look – stylishly arranging novels, coffee-table books, and knickknacks – is trending, people have used shelving to showcase what they’ve read and collected for centuries.2024 October 17, Jennifer Barger, “Get the look of built-ins without splurging on custom shelving”, in Washington Post, page H 11. From the entry bookshelf wealth
  • There were low bookshelves, there was a thick pinkish Chinese rug in which a gopher could have spent a week without showing his nose above the nap.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 37. From the entry nap

Meaning of bookshelf

  1. noun A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.

Full definition of bookshelf

Questions about bookshelf in a sentence

How do you use bookshelf in a sentence?
Bookshelf is used as a noun. For example: “Since he bought the book, it's just been sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust.”
What is a short sentence with bookshelf?
“There was a lovely leather-bound Torah on the bookshelf.”
What does bookshelf mean?
Bookshelf means a shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookshelf (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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