Examples of bookworm in a Sentence
She was always a bookworm when she was a kid.
a bookworm who prefers reading to just about any other activity
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But true bookworms quit books so often that there’s lingo for it in the book world: DNF, for Do Not Finish or Did Not Finish.
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Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 21 Feb. 2025
The noted bookworm recently launched a new publishing initiative of her own.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
The crew at Parnassus Books assembled an exhaustive holiday catalogue with gift ideas for bookworms of all types.
—Adam Tamburin, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
There are too many potential highlights to enumerate here, but here are some of the books scheduled to arrive in the next few months that have my bookworm blood pumping.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 21 Feb. 2025
The noted bookworm recently launched a new publishing initiative of her own.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
The crew at Parnassus Books assembled an exhaustive holiday catalogue with gift ideas for bookworms of all types.
—Adam Tamburin, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
There are too many potential highlights to enumerate here, but here are some of the books scheduled to arrive in the next few months that have my bookworm blood pumping.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Bookworm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bookworm. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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bookworm
noun
book·worm
-ˌwərm 
1
: any of various insect larvae that feed on the binding and paste of books
2
: a person devoted to reading or study
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