bookworm

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

You could be assigned a slovenly party animal who makes your life miserable or a studious bookworm you don’t see all semester.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

They hoped it would be a way to spread the organic bookworm spirit they’d instilled in their five children while dialing up representation for readers who had trouble finding characters who looked like them.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024

He was a lifelong bookworm who recalled taking out up to four novels a day from his local public library.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023

What were they to him, Silvertongue and his daughter, the boy, the bookworm, and the woman who was another man’s wife once more?

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke