(n.) A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
Example Sentences:
(1) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(2) "Obama's aide was in this tiny room, with a single bookcase – but from his door there was the Oval Office.
(3) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(4) Others will have a dual purpose and split between personal and business use, such as: • Mortgage interest (but not the capital repayment) or rent if you're a tenant • Running costs such as heat, light and water and TV licence if it's an essential tool • Repairs to your home or adding a desk and bookcase to an existing room • Council tax • Car or van – for a list of allowances for petrol and running costs go to the HMRC website "Don't be greedy by claiming 100% for business use or you will be liable for capital gains tax on that portion when you sell your home.
(5) My son was disconcerted when we moved back to the UK, and found that the "library" in his new primary school ("excellent", according to Ofsted) was a small bookcase halfway down a corridor.
(6) On my visit, pieces included a Keralan teak canoe upended to form a bookcase, and a Rajput palace window frame with a mirror inserted.
(7) But I reserve my deepest gratitude for the Billy bookcase, the Ikea icon.
(8) There is also a sofa based on the one that Darwin used while listening to his wife, Emma, reading extracts from popular novels, as well as a bookcase that includes a volume of Darwin’s favourite book, Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County .
(9) More than 30 years on, she can still list her haul that day: “Tura, a desk in white, a white bedframe with lots of cushions, curtains, a Billy bookcase …” When her dream came true and she joined the company in 1986, she bought two Klippan sofas, still going strong in her lounge, though she has changed their covers “at least 15 times”.
(10) Sometimes I wonder if the design task should be handed wholesale to the team behind the Ikea instruction manuals: if they can convey in pictograms how to put up a Billy bookcase anywhere in the world, they can surely tell someone in 10,000 years’ time not to dig in a certain place.
(11) You press a button, and the bookcase opens, like in Scooby-Doo.
(12) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian One room set has been stuck to the ceiling, and the Billy bookcases that line the walls have been whitewashed, as have all the books inside them – hacked maybe?
(13) Billy bookcases and the definitive meatball – inside the new Ikea museum Read more Rory Firth, 40, from Maidenhead, said: “It was just bedlam.
(14) Real books were certainly supposed to have been consigned to the secondhand shop – Ikea was even said to have redesigned its children’s bookcase in the light of the decline in books .
(15) The process by which Orwell has been remoulded into a fits-all-sizes paragon is long and twisted, and not without interest (indeed there are whole bookcases of literature on the subject).
(16) In a New York venue dressed as a front room, with sofas, bookcases and a flatscreen television, Kindle executive Peter Larsen unveiled a drinks coaster-sized black box whose processors he claimed were three times as fast as rivals.
(17) And I woke up as I was falling off the top of our bookcase in our living room.
(18) Above the enormous fireplace his copper pans of all possible sizes still hang in readiness; his paintings of brothers and friends (and of artichokes and tomatoes) are crowded on the walls; there is a barrel of vinegar, made from the dregs of favourite wines, that Olney insisted should be a staple of any kitchen, and a bookcase filled with editions of Olney's landmark books.
(19) For decades, Burmese officials have had a full bookshelf of repressive laws to pull down and use to justify political repression and criminalisation of basic freedoms to express views, hold protests, and establish organisations and groups, and it’s time to thin out that bookcase.” The Guardian view on Myanmar’s elections: a notable victory, but tough times still lie ahead | Editorial Read more On Wednesday, Aung San Suu Kyi invited the army chief, president and the parliamentary speaker to discuss the election and national reconciliation.
(20) Looking relaxed in a pink shirt and sitting in front of a bookcase, he is asked questions such as: "What exactly were your findings with regards to the MMR vaccine and autism?"
Bookshelf
Definition:
(n.) A shelf to hold books.
Example Sentences:
(1) His paperback, PWA: Looking Aids in the Face, is one of the most inspiring books I have on my bookshelf.
(2) I have a photo of him on my bookshelf, blowing a raspberry, wearing a Stetson and sticking two fingers up.
(3) At one point it looks as if he's tumbling backwards, but he defies gravity and makes it to the bookshelf, propelled by simple belief.
(4) When I heard that she had died, I promptly went back to my bookshelf and spent my Saturday night re-reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler, and it was, if anything, even more wonderful than I remembered.
(5) Abdel Fattah believes her son will return to the family's flat, down an unpaved back alley in Cairo's Zeitoun district, where his framed portrait sits on top of a bookshelf, when he completes his sentence.
(6) Don't get me wrong: I would like more than anyone to see the report consigned, as the learned judge feared, to a middle bookshelf in an academic's office.
(7) The British public is accustomed to the sight of celebrity chefs competing for column inches, TV airtime and prime bookshelf space, but yesterday new battlelines were drawn as domestic goddess Nigella Lawson launched her iPhone app, putting her in direct competition with Jamie Oliver.
(8) Brandis – who spent more than $15,000 of taxpayer’s money to build a new bookshelf in his parliament house office in 2014 – said he did not believe that the science of climate change was settled but he knew how to follow a logical argument.
(9) "I think it's a great delivery method for all kinds of authors and artists to explore and be seen in, not the bookshelf of a Walmart that the old guidelines turned it into."
(10) An occupational health "bookshelf" reference list is appended.
(11) On the right, on a bookshelf, was a framed copy of Francis’s letter.
(12) Have an incredibly pricey (£1,295) bookshelf on me, Ann Clwyd.
(13) You can now find an Ikea glass, bookshelf or shower curtain in practically every British home.
(14) He doesn’t, even though he’s just finished a nice bookshelf for his London friend.
(15) The writer Somerset Maugham, who in 1949 announced "the subjunctive mood is in its death throes", might be surprised to see my son Freddie's bookshelf, which contains If I Were a Pig … (Jellycat Books, 2008).
(16) The brown-skinned glamour dolls like the one on my bookshelf are always missing.
(17) Applying its much-praised “documentary theatre” technique – where topics are developed through intense journalistic-style investigation – the group started off “by asking which of us had read it and who had a copy lurking at the back of a bookshelf or in their attic”, Haug said.
(18) Praise God, I live a stable life, and God has blessed me with a pious wife, and she has blessed me with a son who I gave your name, Usamah, and a daughter who I named after the mother, Khayriyah.” Osama bin Laden's bookshelf: Noam Chomsky, Bob Woodward, and jihad Read more Khadijh, one of Bin Laden’s daughters, describes the difficulties of communicating with the world’s most wanted man.
(19) Pete wondered if he'd stumbled into a parallel universe when he saw a copy of On Being A Jewish Feminist on my bookshelf.
(20) But this relative impotence is no excuse for failing to hammer home the point that our universities are being forced down, in the title of a famous book by Friedrich Hayek (perhaps on the bookshelf of the higher education minister, Jo Johnson?