bookish

Example Sentences

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Eventually I left for university, where I found my own tribe of bookish girls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Dan, as bookish as he is athletic, approaches matters in a calmer register: “How should I conduct my life? Do you trust yourself, or do you not?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

It’s a simplistic vision of the world that could appeal to and be well understood by bookish children like me.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

Standing on the touchline wearing his bookish glasses and polo neck jumper while holding a notebook, Rosenior looked more like a young college lecturer than a Premier League manager.

From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026

She could see the similarities between these two lonely children, even more clearly than they could: the same sensitive personalities lurking inside both of them, the same bookish wisdom layered over a deep naïveté.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng