bookworm
Example Sentences
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When assistant head teacher Rebecca Howell, a bookworm herself, walks into a classroom, a child will always bring her a book and ask her to read it.
From BBC
“Don’t look now, but here comes a bookworm.”
From Literature
Just as when he’s poring over the playbook, the bearded bookworm reads with pen in hand or ready to note something on his phone.
From Los Angeles Times
An under-the-radar prospect from Miami, Mendoza was such a bookworm in high school that some coaches stopped pursuing him because they questioned whether he really wanted to play football.
So I always imagined my own children would similarly be bookworms and geeks.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
