Example Sentences

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The first meeting of Martha Esquivias’ reading club LB Bookworms consisted of the club founder and one of her friends casually reading together at a coffee shop.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Bookworms in Powys will no longer be fined for returning overdue books.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2022

Bookworms squint at poorly selected typefaces and wince to thumb crummy paper stock.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021

Bookworms can read from the hundreds of donated books at the Lizard Tree Library on the outskirts of the slabs.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2021

Baron de Bookworms says: ‘It is a story told with that rare combination of humour and pathos that is genius.’

From A Cathedral Courtship by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)