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US
/ˈbʊˌkɛnd/
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[ UK /bˈʊkɛnd/ ]
[ UK /bˈʊkɛnd/ ]
NOUN
- a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table)
How To Use bookend In A Sentence
- Then you take them home and by divers evil arts turn them into lamp bases, photo frames and, oh, irony - bookends.
- Kyle and Louis, their hosts for the night, were indeed upstairs, in a paneled private room, reached after a long and disorienting trek through the interior of the club, across parqueted dining rooms, past bars and rest rooms, up two half flights of stairs that bookended a golden little cigar lounge. The Deed
- People buy old-fashioned irons not to iron their clothes with, but to use as bookends or doorstops.
- I was in Rome in March and again in May, bookending a stay of several weeks in the south of Italy and in that most Catholic of countries, Malta.
- It operates much like a simple metal bookend where the book itself prevents the end from sliding or flipping.
- There are angel bookends, guardian angel lapel pins and ceramic candle-holder angels.
- The stories bookending the collection capture her preoccupations.
- The world-wide success of "Suite Fran aise" is a kind of bookend to N mirovsky's success in the 1930s, when she made a name for herself in France by writing a work very different in tone and intention. A Writer's Contradictions
- Like bookends to the main event, he added orderly and totemic panels of more intimate scale, frosted over by a deliquescent rust applied like wash to gatherings of yet more lost things.
- Apocalyptic thunderstorms bookend the show, the first one orphaning a distinctly strange group of kids.