bookcase

Example Sentences

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His two youngest girls play, in a discarded bookcase – the nearest they have to a dolls house.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Scanning my bookcase, which contains a few hundred volumes, it occurred to me that none of them would make sense if Sister Albertine hadn’t grown me into a reader.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Rahaf immediately set up what she called "a shrine" to her sister Sara, with photographs and mementoes, including her watch, carefully laid out on a bookcase.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

Slaughter’s bookcase — which she reveals she designed herself — includes work by Southern writers she admires and champions.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

She dusted the wooden-backed chairs, the table tops, the windowsills, the one bookcase which held a Bible and two rows of photograph albums.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt