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

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

His carefully rehearsed lines and bookish glasses earned the self-confessed geek the unwelcome nickname of "Robot Jetten" in his early career.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

Swiatek is the bookish introvert, Sabalenka is the Tiger-monikered extrovert.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2025

I became bookish, puzzling to all my family.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez