How to Use library in a Sentence

library

noun
  • I borrowed the book from the school library.
  • He has an impressive library of jazz records.
  • The boy had once seen a poster of a rabbit in a burrow on the wall of the school library.
    Kate Dicamillo, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • That, of course, assumes the show remains part of the library.
    R.j. Rico, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • This year's budget called for a 6% cut for the library.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Lane has served on the library board for a little over a year.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The first is me, the lone tourist on the massive library's side, on my way to dinner.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The real claim to fame here is the library of 200-plus tequilas.
    Deanne Revel, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Art and craft vendors will be spread out on both floors of the library.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The oak desk in the library offers a view from above of the living room, and at the same time acts as a balustrade.
    Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Paul Ryan and the Murdochs are also on the board of the Reagan library.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The library system has not added any staff for more than a decade, Berstler said.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2023
  • Sitting in the hushed cocoon of the library gave shape and structure to her days.
    Lynell George, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • In May 2013, City Council approved the purchase of the site to house a new library.
    René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The library is perhaps the most atypical part of the building.
    Teo Armus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Cards must be returned to the library by the end of June to receive a prize entry form.
    Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • What parks, libraries, schools and pantries are in Metcalfe Park?
    Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
  • Others like to quilt — there’s even a book club and one ranger running a park library on the side.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
  • The White House record library ‘is a treasure, and people need to know about it,’ Chuldenko says.
    Longreads, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Williamson said in an email that most patrons respect the library’s space and its rules.
    Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The sisters and their mother, Sophia Mone, go to the library often.
    cleveland, 5 Feb. 2023
  • As evening began and the library closed, some moved to what was called a respite center — a room in the back that was open all night.
    Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Their talk followed the completion of the restoration of the library’s dome, which is more than 18 feet high and 30 feet wide.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Under the hiring freeze, the library staff has dropped from 96 to 66 full- or part-time workers.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Biden quipped to William around 3 p.m., as the prince made his way down a staircase to greet the president outside of the library.
    Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The book made its way to the hands of one of the library’s supervisors, Melena said.
    Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
  • He was intrigued and scrolled onto the page and quickly found his voice in the library as a sample.
    Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • No more than 100 copies of the book are in print, and it’s shelved in only a handful of libraries in the Midwest that are not open to the public.
    Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The Federal Emergency Management Agency has quietly weakened its rules that are designed to protect schools, libraries, fire stations and other public buildings from flooding.
    Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Time is malleable, reality is only a function of our choices, and people can create their own second chances — ideas that Universal Language borrows from Kiarostami’s cinematic library of compassion, and then makes its own.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2025

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