bookcase

Example Sentences

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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

Hynes places his headphones down and drifts over to his bookcase, before coming back into frame 30 seconds later.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

It was discovered without a dustcover on a bookcase during a home clearance in Bristol.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

"Dementia is like a bookcase - your newest memories would be on the top and then sometimes memories fall out."

From BBC • May 30, 2024

As it reached that fork where the rivers meet, the bookcase got caught up on some rocks.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney