bookcase

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Recent Examples of bookcase Clean, however, is another matter—dust bunnies proliferate around the feet of a couple of bookcases, and dirt and grit line the bottom edges of the front door and the bathroom door. Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025 The Batman star is wearing a striped button-down shirt and is sporting his typical grey mustache and beard combo in the picture taken in front of a bookcase filled with numerous awards. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025 Beautiful by Drew Barrymore Fluted Large Bookcase Beautiful by Drew Barrymore Fluted Large Bookcase This gorgeous bookcase is perfect for displaying your trinkets. Elsie Boskamp, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024 The production designer collaborated with special effects supervisor Paul Corbould to design and construct three circular, motorized bookcases with internal ladders that could spin while the actors danced inside. Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for bookcase 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bookcase
Noun
  • The kitchen, the center of life in the apartment, is in a rustic red that complements the large custom table and the Alicante marble credenza.
    Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
  • And furniture seems to float off the walls, such as a hovering credenza in the dining room and modular shelving hung on slim metal bars.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Standing or sitting, put the palms of your hands together in front of your chest, at chest height, as if praying.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Signs and symptoms include a cough that lasts for three weeks or longer, coughing up blood or phlegm, chest pain, weakness, fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite, fever, chills and night sweats, according to the CDC.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Discover the cabinet color trends experts are watching for 2025.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The Israeli cabinet will convene on Monday after Netanyahu returns to Israel.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For many of us, stemmed crystal sparkled under the dimmed light of a breakfront while a collection of coffee mugs were stacked gingerly on top of each other in a shuttered cabinet.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Tucked between a George II mahogany breakfront secretaire bookcase and a series of manuscript and watercolor maps showing the waterways of Venice, Clausen found a type of antiquated nautical map known as a portolan chart.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • The White House is considering an executive order that would tell the education secretary to slash the department as far as possible and urge Congress to fully terminate it.
    Bianca Vázquez Toness, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
  • As for the potential secretary of Health and Human Service, when Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana asked nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his plans for mifepristone, one of two drugs used to end pregnancies within 70 days, Kennedy said Trump asked him to study the safety of the pill.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Springwood Caning Sideboard Those who love entertaining should check out this sideboard.
    Shea Simmons, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The garden room has a dining table and a sideboard also designed by Pöppler.
    Ulrich Clewing, Architectural Digest, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Near the pills on the dresser was Jones’ ID, the complaint alleges.
    Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Walmart’s sale includes coffee tables and desks for your living room, mattresses and dressers for your bedroom, and dining table sets for your kitchen.
    Rachel Trujillo, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Servidors are massive and must be kept in a storage unit, but many other items are in the china closet, to the chagrin of Mr. Lepore’s mother, Virginia.
    Dan Barry, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • My china closet is peopled with memories, but only for me.
    Jessica Hornik, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022

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“Bookcase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookcase. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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