How to Use bookshop in a Sentence

bookshop

noun
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  • While waiting for his mother at a medical appointment, Woo decided to venture to a bookshop nearby.
    — Sara Merican, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024
  • But, at the same time, this attack on the bookshop was a puzzle.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022
  • Across the Atlantic, just 20 copies were on bookshop shelves across the whole of the UK on Friday.
    — Houston Chronicle, 28 June 2018
  • Down the street were Gap and a row of secondhand bookshops.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2024
  • The first floor — a single space running block-to-block — is home for the front desk, café, and bookshop.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The Blackboard Café has a bookshop inside of it, milkshakes, and the best lasagna.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Stacks of his books fill front shelves in every bookshop.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • For many at the beginning, the bookshop was a vibrant hub for the exchange of ideas.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The ideas for some of those events came from the bookshop, and others came from publishers.
    — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2020
  • But this boy had circled a stop on the journey: a little bookshop in Paris.
    — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Many of his employees went on to start bookshops of their own, until the town had almost 40.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • This isn’t the only great bookshop in the metro: Rainy Day Books got nominated as well.
    — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • At Christmas, 1939, a few months into the new World War, London bookshops were very busy.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • One day in August, with nothing better to do, Brown stopped by the Oxfam bookshop in the middle of town.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The setup captures the whimsy of the five-story bookshop, which will open on Charles Street later this month.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • David Abel arrived at his bookshop on the first day of January to find smashed glass all over the floor, books scattered around.
    — oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2020
  • But Covitz had longed to have a bookshop with a bar and passed on her enthusiasm for the concept to Baca.
    — Joyce Smith, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Indeed, the bookshop was designed for people to linger.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Today, the town supports more bookshops per capita than anywhere else in the world.
    — Susan B. Barnes, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
  • Today, the town supports more bookshops per capita than anywhere else in the world.
    — Susan B. Barnes, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
  • Afterword Tavern & Shelves, a bookshop, bar and cafe, plans to take the corner space.
    — Joyce Smith, kansascity, 1 Mar. 2018
  • However, some spots, like The Whale of A Tale bookshop featured in season 1, had their names changed.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 14 July 2023
  • The shy bookshop owner emerged as a stalwart defender of the 1st Amendment and a new kind of writing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The first was in a basement cafe of the London bookshop where Mr. Litvinenko used to meet his handler from the British secret service.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • But on a recent Sunday afternoon, the bookshop was hard to miss.
    — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Just about all the bookshop owner has to do is customize their store page on the Bookshop website and deposit the check.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • While Crowley is leery as to why the archangel has come to the bookshop, Aziraphale is keen to solve the mystery behind Gabriel’s condition.
    — Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 27 July 2023
  • Borges 1975 is a bookshop with a restaurant and bar, as well as an intimate back room that hosts jazz acts every week.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 18 May 2023
  • Koehler said that the bookshop did not really struggle financially over the 10 weeks that the shop was closed.
    — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2020
  • When Ouray Bookshop lost its lease in 2023, local Pat Light was able to purchase the beloved shop thanks in part to private financing from a bookshop regular.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024

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