(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?"
Bookshelves
Definition:
(pl. ) of Bookshelf
Example Sentences:
(1) Bookshelves, wood, rubber gloves and bottles of cooking gas were on it.
(2) Expansive open-plan floors are once again linked with weaving flights of escalators, only here they are suspended precipitously through dramatic interlocking rotundas, which climb from the cavernous lending library terraces, up through floating rings of bookshelves, to the heavenly reaches of the light-flooded atrium above.
(3) This is important as the diagnostic scheme is not a theoretical work which will lay gathering dust on the bookshelves in medical libraries, it is a practical tool which forms the basis for the categorization of 'the insane'.
(4) Custom-made to blend in with the Victorian wooden benches, it looks like a tea-trolley and is almost as unobtrusive as the small grey cameras perched on the bookshelves.
(5) A picture of Billie Holiday (visible) and a red-black painting of Brazil (out of sight) are on the only wall not covered with bookshelves.
(6) Have a last drink at the Golem bar on the other side of the Reeperbahn then climb down the secret stairway behind the bookshelves to the club below.
(7) Photograph: Zed Nelson for the Guardian If the bookshelves were not an example of excess, what would he consider an excessive claim?
(8) 2002 Counterpunch article On his writing room's bookshelves: "Most of them, however, are filled with the foreign editions of my books.
(9) Well, I don’t want to see a branch of Paperchase thrown up between the bookshelves and the traditional rack of filthy old CDs.
(10) Dalyell was reported to have claimed £18,000 for three bookshelves just before he retired from the Commons.
(11) It's not the golden stone Cotswold communities with their easily afforded, well-stocked bookshelves that will suffer, it is places such as Tuffley and Cinderford and Brockworth, whose home link and share-a-book mobile library services look after residents in old people's homes and disadvantaged children under six.
(12) Miles of bookshelves towering up on nine levels, with another below ground, are ready and waiting to receive nearly a million books.
(13) Four months ago, Louise Bagshawe was a household name only in households whose bookshelves featured novels with titles such as Passion, Glamour and Glitz.
(14) Ihave bookshelves of reports detailing the unfair treatment many NHS Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff receive in recruitment, promotion, training, discipline and pay.
(15) More than five million copies of Xi’s The Governance of China now adorn bookshelves and coffee tables around the globe, if Communist party propagandists are to be believed, in languages including Russian, Cambodian, Portuguese, Arabic and Nepali.
(16) Book lovers The theory is you can tell a lot about someone from their bookshelves, and a site such as Alikewise is the online equivalent.
(17) 'Escalators climb from the cavernous lending library terraces, up through floating rings of bookshelves to the heavenly reaches of the light-flooded atrium.'
(18) Standing in front of wall-to-wall bookshelves, twice his height, carrying only Sherlock Holmes books, Betzner explained how BSI is different from other fan groups while a man clad in a trench coat, spectacles and a flat cap hovered curiously close by.
(19) The bookshelves are crammed with law books in English and Arabic, the ashtray is full, and his lean frame is hunched over a computer as messages of support come in from Libya and abroad.
(20) The rooms had many bookshelves and comfortable reading chairs, but the sleeping space was two woollen sleeping bags embroidered with the words meum and tuum – mine and yours – on a sort of leather shelf.