How to Use bookend in a Sentence

bookend

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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 | [email protected], 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

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