[
US
/ˈbʊkˌkeɪs/
]
[ UK /bˈʊkkeɪs/ ]
[ UK /bˈʊkkeɪs/ ]
NOUN
- a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books
How To Use bookcase In A Sentence
- We chuckled together as she stood and reached up to the top shelf of a grand bookcase in the corner.
- Along the walls are bookcases filled with books he never knew existed.
- The bookcases are handsome things assembled from varnished plywood.
- The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds.
- Foster's office bookcase contains about equal numbers of books on chemistry and on accountancy.
- Such is the case with the labeled tambour desk-and-bookcase illustrated above, now safely in the Museum in Augusta.
- He's made a real pig's ear of that bookcase he was supposed to be making.
- Bookcases filled with tomes of indecipherable writing lined the walls of the library.
- Along with other large case pieces, desks-and-bookcases were often covered with herringbone-patterned veneer in exotic woods or tortoiseshell.
- That selfish student always appropriates the biggest bookcase and desk.