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bookend

[ US /ˈbʊˌkɛnd/ ]
[ UK /bˈʊkɛnd/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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

  • It provided the closing bookend for the project with the beginning bookend being the ending of the Cold War.
  • The recording is bookended nicely by tracks of contrasting character.
  • The excised footage is bookended by black-and-white versions of the scenes surrounding the cut, which is a nice touch.
  • On the window ledge oak bookends supported a small library.
  • And we look at it as a kind of bookend to the very beginning. Joan Baez: Playing For 'Tomorrow'
  • For starters, the dances on offer — two abstract dramas bookending a kinetic treatise on physics — are ultimately too unrelievedly samey. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two shows, both alike in style, are bookending the coming week at Epsom Playhouse, starting with a one-man show and ending with a solo female play.
  • His mice are to be found everywhere: scurrying across church pews and altars, sitting on oak ashtrays, inside clock cases and on oak bookends, even peeking out from beneath oak dining tables and chairs designed for grand country homes.
  • Youth and age, it seems, are the bookends of life.
  • It says something about the ultimately comic core of "The Finkler Question" that Truslove, in a kind of bookend to his mugging, finds himself late in the novel set upon by a group of pro-Palestinian Jewish demonstrators outside a Holocaust museum. A Comedy of Anti- and Philo-Semitism Takes a Prize
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