Example Sentences

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Bookstores are fun, so we’d head downtown for the Last Bookstore, which is in a historic building with lots of vintage books.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Bookstores have adapted to the trend, buying more English-language versions of popular books or focusing on English editions of young adult novels.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024

Bookstores, even: Where do you take visitors and newcomers?

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023

While Proud Boys yelled and shoved outside the entrance, the children inside Loyalty Bookstores laughed, did the hokey pokey and danced as drag queen Charlemagne Chateau, dressed as a princess, read stories, they said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2023

Bookstores, magazine stands, Web sites and libraries struggle to satisfy an apparently inexhaustible public appetite for information on religious and spiritual subjects.

From One Common Faith by Baha'i International Community