bibliophile

Example Sentences

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He was a Christian Zionist and bibliophile, who by all accounts knew the land of Israel better than many of the Jews who lived there.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023

Corcoran was a bibliophile who didn’t horde books but who delighted in knowing what she could about those within her sphere of Modern art interests and making them available to others.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2022

Through the late 1940s and mid-50s, this world-famous poet shared a suite of rooms with the witty, wheelchair-bound bibliophile John Hayward.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Like his father, the bibliophile would not survive the disaster.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2022

Although he expended annually a considerable sum on the equipment of his libraries, Bute was no bibliophile in the sense in which that word is now often used.

From John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir by Blair, David Hunter