How to Use bookshop in a Sentence

bookshop

noun
  • Ali’s study has taken on the air of a bookshop, ready for sale.
    — Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
  • But, at the same time, this attack on the bookshop was a puzzle.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022
  • Kara, an avid reader, had long wanted to open a bookshop.
    — Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The bookshop would also sell my perfumes.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Staff at the bookshop did not respond to a request for comment last week.
    — Claire Osborn, Austin American Statesman, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The ideas for some of those events came from the bookshop, and others came from publishers.
    — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2020
  • 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
  • For many at the beginning, the bookshop was a vibrant hub for the exchange of ideas.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • In fact, the bookshop is named after Ophelia, the first cat to reside here.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Today, the town supports more bookshops per capita than anywhere else in the world.
    — Susan B. Barnes, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
  • Today, the town supports more bookshops per capita than anywhere else in the world.
    — Susan B. Barnes, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
  • The space is quiet and cozy, and has the feel of a classic New York bookshop.
    — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The new library bookshop will add to the mix, with some overlaps and some differences.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Some of the village’s other bookshop owners agreed.
    — Alicia Fabbre, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Many bookshops and libraries host story times for little readers.
    — Robin Westen, Parents, 21 May 2026
  • Then, walk off those calories wandering from bookshop to bookshop.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But on a recent Sunday afternoon, the bookshop was hard to miss.
    — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Many of his employees went on to start bookshops of their own, until the town had almost 40.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The Blackboard Café has a bookshop inside of it, milkshakes, and the best lasagna.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Kim compared the product to the stock at a community bookshop.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The bookshop-slash-café offers books, prints, and original Akari light sculptures.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2026
  • Start on the ground floor, check out the temporary exhibition space upstairs, then do a quick browse through the bookshop.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2026
  • The Yankee Bookshop A small town can’t have a quaint main street without a cute bookshop.
    — Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Afterword Tavern & Shelves, a bookshop, bar and cafe, plans to take the corner space.
    — Joyce Smith, kansascity, 1 Mar. 2018
  • And this is for good reason, since Heywood Hill is arguably the most spy-centric bookshop on the face of the earth.
    — airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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