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 • Dec. 27, 2025

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

We’ve been asking our sources, our colleagues and our bookworm friends about their favorite books of 2022.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

I don’t remember when the blocks of words began to make sense, but by the end of that school year I’d gone from book hater to bookworm.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson