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How to use bookstore in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun

Bookstore means a store where books are bought and sold. Example: “The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.”

More sentences with bookstore

  • The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.From the entry remainder
  • As an angst-ridden teenager, I was a haunter of smoke-filled coffee shops and dingy second-hand bookstores.From the entry haunter
  • I stopped in several bookstores to browse.From the entry browse
  • This is a prime location for a bookstore.From the entry prime
  • She refused to live in a non-urban environment because of her addictedness to used bookstores and coffee shops.From the entry addictedness
  • These are the bookstores' latest offerings.From the entry offering
  • Cold calling at two or three favourite bookstores usually sorts out distribution.2012 January 8, “Pulp fiction with Jungle Jim”, in MarkLives.com, retrieved 10 Nov 2020. From the entry whisper network
  • I told my parents I was going to try to get a job application from this bookstore.2003 May 7, User Name, “Shit Yourself V”, in alt.politics.usa.death-metal (Usenet). From the entry goodnite
  • A lekker dictionary containing all the bakgat South African words has hit the bookstores.2002 September 9, Peroshni Govender, “Hau, my china, it's bakgat”, in Independent Online, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2018. From the entry bakgat
  • Look at the self-help titles in the bookstore, and you'll get a few clues about our culture.1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91. From the entry self-help
  • Fringe groups continue to publish hate literature, available in some L.A. religious bookstores.1991 September 9, Amy Kuebelbeck, “Under Fire? : Is anti-Catholic sentiment increasing? Some say yes and declare they’re not going to take…. From the entry anti-christ
  • There were so many auctions, secondhand bookstores, antiquariats, and libraries to go to.1977, Mennonite Life, volume 32/33, North Newton, Kan.: Bethel College, page 19. From the entry antiquariat
  • It was very different from such bookstores as he had been accustomed to patronize.1919, Christopher Morley, “The Haunted Bookshop”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 4. From the entry alcove
  • These same neighborhoods are home to bookstores that carry graffiti coffee table books and universities that offer courses on graffiti art.2023 June 30, Stefano Bloch, “Graffiti has undergone a massive shift in a few quick decades as street art gains social acceptance”, in The…. From the entry graffiti art
  • At Mount Zero, a jewel-box-size bookstore in the Sheung Wan district, the owner hosts visits by politically controversial authors.2021 June 20, Tiffany May, “In the New Hong Kong, Booksellers Walk a Fine Line”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Sheung Wan
  • This up-and-coming area has been absorbing much of Hsinchu growing population and has attracted many independent bookstores, shops and restaurants.2020, Pei-Ling (郭佩伶) Guo, GOOD EYE台灣挑剔指南:第一本讓世界認識台灣的中英文風格旅遊書(中英雙語), volume I, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70. From the entry Chupei
  • Younger readers are passionate about new voices and new ideas but also about real, physical books and real, physical bookstores.2019 May 1, Karen Schechner, “Q&Q with Mike Gustafson, Co-Owner of Literati Bookstore”, in Kirkus Reviews, page 124. From the entry bookstagram
  • The illustrious bookstore has nothing for helping analphabets.2013, Laurence Cossé, chapter 2, in Alison Anderson, transl., Bitter Almonds, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN. From the entry analphabet
  • And a Los Angeles bookstore called “Whimsic Alley” was sued by the company over its overtly Hogwarts-ian wares, from chocolate frogs to Gryffindor scarves.2018 June 17, Kristen De Groot, “Crackdown removes Potter fest magic”, in Wisconsin State Journal, page A6. From the entry Hogwarts-ian
  • I think of the barista or bookstore clerk who responds to my questions with a look that says, "Hey, man, it's a gig.2016 January 11, Geoffrey Nunberg, “Fresh Air: Goodbye Jobs, Hello ‘Gigs’: How One Word Sums Up a New Economic Reality”, in NPR, archived…. From the entry gig
  • The redtagging of bookstores, to me, is a sign of a growing push by certain elements in our society to promote ignorance and turn the public against education.2022 April 1, James Veloso, “Smart Shaming”, in Opinyon. From the entry marcos
  • Adam appreciated Ann Arbor's “unmalled” downtown daily springing to life, people afoot, independent restaurants, bookstores, local shops, and all the rest making a city's core—large or small—a vibrant place.2016, Nicholas Aharon Boggioni, The Fundamentalist's Daughter, an American Story, page 29. From the entry unmalled
  • In an industry where it is hard to tell fact from fiction anymore, one writer said bookstores might as well label genre sections “Fictionish,” “Memoirish,” and “Cartoonish.” When.2011 November 1, Laura Oliver, M.F.A., The Story Within: New Insights and Inspiration for Writers, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry fictionish
  • Independent bookstores, of course, have been under siege for nearly two decades by the megachains and the Web retailers, and have been steadily dropping away, one by one.2007 January 3, Julie Bosman, “A Princeton Maverick Succumbs to a Cultural Shift”, in New York Times. From the entry megachain
  • "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" opens today, and on July 21 the seventh and final Potter tome lands with a thud at your local bookstore.2007 July 12, Peter Rainer, “'Phoenix' rising: Harry Potter and the abridged tome”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry Pottermaniac
  • Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller.1998 November 4, George Anders, “Discomfort Zone: Some Big Companies Long to Embrace Web But Settle for Flirtation — They Fear Online…. From the entry amazon
  • I might point to Canada where limitations on free publication promoted by certain feminists have empowered the police to stage raid after raid on LGBTO bookstores.1994, bit.listserv.gaynet (Usenet). From the entry LGBTO
  • Austin, even postboom Austin, has always been small enough to accommodate my haunts — the grocery, the laundromat, the burger joint, and the bookstore — within walking distance.1988 September, Texas Monthly, volume 16, number 9, page 94. From the entry postboom
  • When Torso, a gay male magazine, arrived at Little Sister's bookstore this month, 42 out of 75 pages had been ripped out of it, making it unsaleable.1986 February 15, Kim Westheimer, “Canada Censors U.S. Gay, Lesbian Magazines”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 3. From the entry unsaleable
  • Maybe real estate developers with friends on the City Council have wanted to convert Hennepin Avenue, where the Locker Room and the bookstores are located, into a higher-toned entertainment district.1979 December 29, Rick Hillegas, “Minneapolis Raid Nets 125 Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 3. From the entry high-toned

Meaning of bookstore

  1. noun A store where books are bought and sold.
  2. noun A stationery store.

Full definition of bookstore

Questions about bookstore in a sentence

How do you use bookstore in a sentence?
Bookstore is used as a noun. For example: “The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.”
What is a short sentence with bookstore?
“These are the bookstores' latest offerings.”
What does bookstore mean?
Bookstore means a store where books are bought and sold.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookstore (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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