How to Use bookseller in a Sentence

bookseller

noun
  • And a local bookseller tells us what our next great read should be.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025
  • Spearman said he’s learned from his first run as a bookseller.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2025
  • For booksellers, this is the most engaging and fun time of the year!
    — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Collectors came to them with wish lists for the booksellers to track down.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The law also means booksellers would have to rate books already sold.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • His father was a bookseller; his mother couldn’t read or write.
    — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • But booksellers are hopeful that their customers won’t take the bait.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The Times says its list is based on surveys of thousands of booksellers.
    — David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Now big studio and video game exhibits are front and center, with booksellers are in the back.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 20 July 2017
  • The bookseller sharply warned Hans not to take such a dangerous risk.
    — Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • That means giving your booksellers freedom that allows them frankly to have more fun.
    — Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Schwartz, on the other hand, was frustrated to learn that some booksellers were out of stock.
    — Peter Osnos, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The bookseller had sensed the time was ripe for an anthology.
    — Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Presents — by regulation, books mailed from booksellers — show up on or around the day.
    — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2015
  • Aster Karbaum, a former bookseller, has white hair, a deep tan and topaz-blue eyes.
    — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The booksellers were later released on bail.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • The booksellers were ordered to pay two hundred and twenty-two dollars in fines.
    — Joy Lanzendorfer, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • One of the boxes was from the bookseller Borders, which went out of business eleven years ago.
    — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The arrests of Hong Kong booksellers and activists have fed these fears.
    — Yanan Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2019
  • For 50 years readers have flocked to the booksellers for the volume and devoured it.
    — David Shribman, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • The book is now available on Amazon and at major booksellers.
    — Forbes Books Press Release Official, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Connor told booksellers that things continue to look up for indies.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The fact that my father was a bookseller was helpful; I was borne by a following wind.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022
  • As my bookseller friend knew, its ravages often leave the remaining copies of a work all the more valuable.
    — Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Books fans mostly have had to make do with browsing the iconic local bookseller’s website over the past six months.
    — oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Garing has seen a shift in Merrill as she's moved from content creator to bookseller.
    — Gili Malinsky tasia Jensen, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • And also thank you for writing in with the booksellers’ perspective on this matter.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The bookstore is really a stall in the style of the booksellers on the banks of the Seine in Paris.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Connor told booksellers that dark romance and escapist fiction accounted for a lot of the adult bump, genre-wise.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The booksellers had suggestions for even the most hesitant reader too.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025

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