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How to use bookshop in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Bookshop means a shop that sells books. Example: “The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.”

More sentences with bookshop

  • The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.From the entry shape
  • The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.From the entry right
  • I had a browse in the old bookshop.From the entry browse
  • Down this street is a lovely olde worlde bookshop.From the entry olde worlde
  • Yes, it's fun to walk along Madison Avenue and see your own book in bookshop windows.2019, Pamela McCorduck, “Being a Nine-day Wonder”, in This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia…. From the entry nine-day wonder
  • You know you like nosing around the little bookshops and cafés there.2009, Hanif Kureishi, Something to Tell You, →ISBN, page 313. From the entry nose around
  • Sadly, the independent bookshop that occupied a room in the southern station building has succumbed to closure, due to the pandemic.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28. From the entry succumb
  • The papers are freely available in Sydney bookshops and newsagents.1990 February 11, Kendall Lovett, “Gay Newspapers Banned”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 30, page 2. From the entry newsagent
  • Beyond the smiths were the bookshops, supplying for the intellect the enchantment that the smith supplied for the eye.1988, Harriet Ronken Lynton, Mohini Rajan, “The City”, in The Days of the Beloved, 2nd edition, New Delhi: Orient Longman, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry beloved
  • But now it’s art galleries and bookshops, boutiques filled with black clothing and weird footgear, the saw-toothed edge of trend.1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye. From the entry footgear
  • TikTok users have been speaking about needing to poo whenever they are in a bookshop or, as it is known to some, ‘book bowels’.2023 August 4, Kelly, Sarah-Louise, “Why Bookshops Make You Need to Poo”, in Huffington Post. From the entry book bowel
  • At the bookshop in twenty minutes.1954, Edward Eager, Half Magic. From the entry wherewithal
  • Signage, pointing out that this is a Muslim bookshop or that this is a halal butcher, indicates the religious identities that are the primary target of these shops.2016, Charles Husband, Yunis Alam, Jörg Hüttermann, Joanna Fomina, “Walking Manningham: Streetscapes, Soundscapes and the Semiotics of the…. From the entry signage
  • Earlier that year Italian Jews had come under serious attack when an incendiary publication, Gli ebrei in Italia (The Jews in Italy), had flooded the bookshops.2014, Ian Thomson, Primo Levi: A Life, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry incendiary
  • Beatrice Davis's office, a mere attic above Angus and Robertson's bookshop at 89 Castlereagh Street, is at the altaltissimo of a perilous steep of strait wooden stairs.1975, Hal Porter, The Extra, Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry altaltissimo

Meaning of bookshop

  1. noun A shop that sells books.

Full definition of bookshop

Questions about bookshop in a sentence

How do you use bookshop in a sentence?
Bookshop is used as a noun. For example: “The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.”
What is a short sentence with bookshop?
“At the bookshop in twenty minutes.”
What does bookshop mean?
Bookshop means a shop that sells books.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookshop (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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