How to Use bookend in a Sentence

bookend

1 of 2 noun

• He used an empty flowerpot as a bookend.
• There are Trump body bookends all over the sports world.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• In a sense, the attempt on Rushdie’s life marked a bookend for Ali.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2022
• Give me the bookend series, bright lights, and palm trees.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
• The Finale on Friday, what seemed to be the bookend to his Icy Boyz projects over the last two years.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
• The fall of Kabul may serve as a bookend for the era of U.S. global power.
  — Robin Wrigh, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2021
• Kwity Paye, the team’s first-round pick in 2021, is going to be Ngakoue’s bookend on the front line.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2022
• The seventh of the seven games served as a sadly apt bookend to the Houston loss.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
• The back end has two bookend corners in Pepe and Rudduck.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022
• This album is very much a kind of bookend to my first album.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2020
• The bookend of the defense case was not Ridley-Thomas but his wife.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• If that turns out to be true, then Cleveland has a nice bookend for Myles Garrett.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 8 Apr. 2021
• Her venture with Guide Beauty comes as the bookend to a year full of sharing her story with the world.
  — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 10 June 2022
• Most of the time Garrett and Clowney are bookend defensive ends.
  — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Louisville hosts UT Martin as a bookend to the homestand.
  — Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2021
• Echoing that theme, the bookend rings can be used to complete your favorite ring stack at each end.
  — Jennifer Jenkins, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
• Adding another young gun on the wing to Dylan Guenther makes for a nice pair of bookends.
  — Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• But the bookends adjusted their contracts to cut some hair under the cap.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
• Schutte wanted to end his career with bookend state crowns.
  — Gabriel Stovall, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2021
• That's far from the only bookend moment in this finale.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• In the world of car collecting, people tend to like the bookends of cars, so the very first and very last are always desirable.
  — Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• The new bookend tight end, Eric Ebron, is coming off surgery on both ankles.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
• Give it a second life: Turn it into decor or a bookend instead.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
• The film ended up being the bookend to a singular body of work that had begun in 1988 with Salaam Bombay!
  — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2020
• Halloween Ends puts a bookend on the story of the deathless knife-wielding killer Michael Myers.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2022
• Of course, this being an award show in 2024, the night began and ended (in near-exact bookends) with Taylor Swift.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2024
• Everyone on Wall Street appears to be drinking from the same punch bowl as Jamie Dimon, who framed the sale as a bookend to the crisis.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 1 May 2023
• And late October through early April bookends the lull of low season.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
• One of our favorite holidays is the bookend to this fabulous time of year.
  — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 17 Aug. 2022
• Bevington is helped by having a pair of bookend tackles back with him this year.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2020

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bookend

2 of 2 verb

• Stone walls with arched top-floor windows bookend the rear of the structure.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• The navy beanie and white sneakers perfectly bookend the look.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• As in life, on-screen silence is as important as the words that bookend it.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• Remaining on the subject of Chris’ past, Idris Elba has a cameo/small role that bookends the film.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• One great idea is to bookend your trip with waterfall hikes.
  — John Pana, cleveland, 9 Mar. 2021
• Who wants to bookend their trip with getting sick, after all?
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• Two of Leigh’s sculptures also bookend the main group show in the Arsenale.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• These falling rocks — there are two that bookend the story — strike me as a serviceable metaphor.
  — Rachel Vorona Cote, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• On the first floor, four standard bedrooms bookend a vast, high-ceiling living room and an open kitchen.
  — Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2024
• By the bottom of the ninth, all that was needed to bookend the second Field of Dreams game with the inaugural affair was a walk-off home run.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
• After the Altar Love Is Blind’s trio of epilogue episodes is a nice closing bookend to each season.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2023
• There are self-checkout lanes at both entrances that bookend the staffed lanes for a total of 37 registers.
  — Dallas News, 9 May 2022
• The two primers bookend the region to be amplified - see this pic for an explanation of why.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2010
• Like other cribs on our list, this one can convert to a daybed, and the front and back pieces can bookend a full-size bed frame, sold separately.
  — Rachel Rothman and Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2023
• Those games bookend the 20-game conference schedule announced by the Big East on Friday.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 9 Sep. 2022
• That footage appears in the ghostly underwater scenes that bookend the movie, making the montages all the more haunting.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• The quest to secure the PS5 bag may be a proper, if peculiar, bookend to this tempestuous time.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
• The movie’s protest scenes bookend a retelling of the creation myth that serves as a reminder, says Gauder, that humans and animals are meant to coexist.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
• Scenes of youthful exuberance and folly bookend with a final shot of Manuel singing new lyrics for their song.
  — Jd Linville, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
• Walker had faced the Phillies twice earlier in the season to bookend his stint on the injured list with right shoulder bursitis.
  — Andrew Tredinnick, USA TODAY, 6 May 2022
• So bookend each live event with elements that make the learning more impactful.
  — William Arruda, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• If Williams is sidelined, McKivitz and Compton will bookend the offensive line.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2022
• This year, just a few hundred fans stood at the finish line—an eerily quiet and spare crowd compared to the typical thousands that arrive to bookend the race’s start and end.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2020
• Decorate your bookshelf with this stylish acrylic bookend that doubles as a flower vase.
  — Samantha Jones, Country Living, 22 Mar. 2023
• The images, taken almost two decades apart, roughly bookend Avedon's time at Bazaar.
  — Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 May 2023
• The incoming rookie can either contribute as a 5-technique or bookend Rashan Gary off the edge.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• Black Bear Diner chain locations now bookend Fort Worth.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2024
• Biden is back in his native Pennsylvania on Thursday for a prime-time speech that will bookend one of the more peculiar days in a strange era of politics.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2022
• Rossi started on the pole and was looking to bookend a 43-race, three-year winless streak with a second Road America victory but couldn’t keep up on the final restart.
  — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2022
• Two carpet lifts — which carry riders up a gentle slope on moving walkways — bookend the tubing hill, and $34 passes get you two hours of snowy rides.
  — Amy Bizzarri, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024