How to Use bookish in a Sentence

bookish

adjective

• Their teacher was a bookish fellow.
• As kids, Jo is the bookish tomboy and Bethie the feminine good girl.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 8 June 2019
• Full of madcaps, mishaps and lots of bookish asides, this is an adorable romp.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2022
• The idea for the show was to tell the story of a bookish teenage girl whose best friend was her 30-something mother.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
• Ditto Camila Mendes, since the teenage Hermione looks kind of bookish and shy.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2018
• Meanwhile, the bookish Adler did his best to stay out of the limelight and steer clear of the controversy.
  — Peter Manseau, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2020
• To get an even more bookish effect, a lot of the models wore large, wire-rimmed glasses.
  — Kristen Bateman, Allure, 2 July 2019
• But for Ofglen, other than a bookish (hey!) career and a wife and kid, her past is a blank to us.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 May 2017
• Lexi has always been the most conservative out of all the girls, and is more bookish than any of them.
  — Jamila Stewart, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2022
• And in the cafe, a number of my bookish classmates, reading and chatting.
  — Esra Erol, Bon Appétit, 30 Mar. 2022
• Kennedy is bookish and abstract, while Trump is earthy and direct.
  — Adam Liptak and Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• Trelawny, the younger son, is bookish and ironic, and the most frequent narrator.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Sebastian Junger co-owns the Half King, an Irish pub and restaurant with a bookish bent.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• For the bookish Bäumer the finest thing that arose out of the war—and could never be belittled—was comradeship.
  — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• The blond Billy wasn’t bookish like Tony, but had plenty of common sense.
  — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
• As a bookish, brunette teenager, Rory Gilmore was my idol.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2020
• This was the hero piece that truly drove Hadid’s bookish outfit home.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2020
• Or #bookworm with 3 million tags is a good start for all things #bookish (620K mentions).
  — Felicity Loughrey, Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2016
• Justice Kennedy is bookish and abstract, while Mr. Trump is earthy and direct.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2018
• Shop below for our favorite styles to bring your best bookish look straight into fall.
  — Julia Gall, Marie Claire, 20 Aug. 2020
• Troy was the cool, star basketball player and Gabriella was the new, bookish girl on the scholastic decathlon team.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 25 Oct. 2017
• How about that bookish heroines are the most endearing?
  — Angela Haupt, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2019
• For some, this too muchness, married to Wilder’s bookish mischief, will pall.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• David is white and middle class; his best friend, Marlon, is a bookish black kid who lives in public housing.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
• Buchanan loves the sanguine talk, but his own idiom is quite often refined, even bookish.
  — Sam Tanenhaus, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2017
• Too bookish and restrained for mainstream pop, too neurotic for punk, and too bright and structured for post-punk.
  — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2021
• Chloe Bennet will play Blossom, the bookish and self-possessed leader.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2021
• The mother was glamorous and reveled in parties and travel; the daughter was bookish and spent hours alone playing Bach on the piano.
  — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• Mary, intelligent and bookish, was no beauty and was never a favorite of Queen Victoria’s ether.
  — Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez is a bookish man with a reputation for probity who wears suits and carefully coordinated ties and shirts to work.
  — Peter Canby, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024