Example Sentences

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“At seventeen I met a thin, heavy-thighed, balding man who talked and talked, snobbishly, bookishly, and called me ‘Sweet.’

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019

As Gerald Jacobs, the photographer’s son, recalls: “It was as a remarkable place, his studio, like a community centre...I think of it now, perhaps rather bookishly, as being lit by Caribbean sunshine.”

From Economist • Jun. 12, 2018

However, your ambitious tour is both geographically and bookishly inspiring.

From New York Times • May 22, 2018

Barry Jenkins is compact, bald, bespectacled and bookishly handsome.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017

They do not talk bookishly about clouds or stones, or pigs or slugs, or horses or anything you please.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)