bookish

Example Sentences

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It’s a simplistic vision of the world that could appeal to and be well understood by bookish children like me.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

But he kept coming back to a classic: a slender, bookish typeface famously used in Apple’s “Think Different” campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

His carefully rehearsed lines and bookish glasses earned the self-confessed geek the unwelcome nickname of "Robot Jetten" in his early career.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

Bright and bookish, after wartime evacuation to the Lake District, Prunella attended Moira House Girls School in Eastbourne.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

I became bookish, puzzling to all my family.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez