Sentence examples for Bookish from high-quality English sources.

• “Our parents were thoroughly Soviet people,” says Prokhorov’s bookish older sister, Irina.

• Bookish and determinedly polite, the American-born banker has the charisma that many others lack.

• Despite being "shy and bookish" at school, her accident led to her curtailing her educational pursuits.

• Rema Rajeshwari, the softly spoken, bookish woman in charge of policing Jogulamba Gadwal, sent officers to investigate the unusual behaviour.

• He grew up on Riverside Drive, in Manhattan, among the bookish élite of the Upper West Side.

• Meanwhile, though, in the safety of my neat, bookish little bedroom, I dared to dream – and wildly so.

• Bezos looked noticeably muscular, and his stylish vest and designer sunglasses were a major change from his previous, more bookish appearance.

• With floor-to-ceiling, well-stocked bookshelves complete with a library ladder, this treehouse is the manifestation of all your bookish dreams.

Use Bookish in a sentence.

• There’s a common misconception that being bookish implies a certain level of dowdiness, that it’s impossible to care about literature as well as fashion.

• Many of the people who predict the return of 1970s-style inflation used to deride the old-school, bookish rate-setter, with his fancy econometrics and lack of market smarts.

• But when he’s accepted on to a new Young, Gifted and Talented programme, he finds himself on a weekend away in the Yorkshire moors with a bookish and charismatic girl called Katie.

• Her family and the guests reappear in her Wonderland dream, with Edward Watson’s bookish Carroll transformed into a twitchy White Rabbit and her mother now a monstrous Queen of Hearts.

• Simon’s best early songs tended to be bookish angst-ridden reveries with simple folk rock melodies and earnest, poetically ambitious (but often mannered) lyrics, some influenced by Bob Dylan.

• When we read a novel whose young, bookish protagonist is seen, within its pages, working on a novel, a familiar literary conceit is encouraged: the novel he is depicted trying to write becomes, ideally and figuratively, the one we are reading.

• Xi’s family, though, offers an unusually vivid look at how a shy, bookish youth, raised in the bosom of party privilege, was tested and changed by the chaos that unfolded after Mao’s decision to turn the masses against the party establishment.

• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen The Blessed Girl by Angela Makholwa The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

Bookish sentence examples

• What’s more, in the globalised world there is presumably no need to randomly connect with a bookish nerd from Essen or a devil-may-care BMX afficionado from La Rochelle, when like-minded bods from around the planet can be found in an instant, lip-syncing to your favourite song on TikTok.

• “How about this: As a small, wide-eyed, bookish boy, travelling with his family across the dusty plains from Texas to Memphis in the 1930s on their way to Detroit, Leonard never forgot the misery of the starving, ragged farmers and the stirring tales of desperadoes such as Bonnie and Clyde…

• “I’m really excited about the shortlist because I think this really showcases different ways that women are funny,” said Keyes, who together with judges including the comedian Lolly Adefope also shortlisted Beth O’Leary’s The Flatshare, Michelle Gallen’s Big Girl, Small Town, Angela Makholwa’s The Blessed Girl, and Abbi Waxman’s The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.

• A bijou but superbly executed concept bookstore that blends traditionally ‘bookish’ furnishings with sleek modernity, the shop specialises in rare literary and art tomes from underground and countercultural movements of the postwar period: the Cow Books manifesto of ‘Everything for the Freedom’ appears on a ‘ticker tape’ LED strip running around the space’s perimeter.