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How to pronounce bookend in English?

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Type of support

Examples of bookend

bookend
The idyllic scene provides a fitting bookend to what has been a spectacular day.
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Bookend defensive ends Lech and Bowmer hope to wreak havoc on opposing defenses.
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On Wednesday, CBS makes two strategic time period changes to bookend the night.
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Great, tuneful hits bookend the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra's matinee today.
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Pong will be played April 19 and 24, to bookend an event called Philly Tech Week.
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A bookend who 28 years after Bugden scored that try, still wishes he'd done more.
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There was a sense of punishment or karma coming round to bookend the first movie.
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He's the steady, sturdy bookend for Barrett Jackman they need on the blue line.
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Which, of course, provided a useful bookend for the film All the President's Men.
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More examples
  • A support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table)
  • A bookend is an object that is designed to buttress, or support, an upright row of books. It is placed on either end to prevent books from falling over, such as in a half-filled bookshelf. Bookends are both utilitarian and, often, decorative. They are common in libraries and in homes. ...
  • Bookends is the name of an album and its title track, both recorded by Simon & Garfunkel, released April 3, 1968. It was produced by Paul Simon, Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel.
  • (Bookends (software)) Bookends is a commercial reference management software package for Mac OS X that is used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Its target market is students, academics and professionals. ...
  • (bookends) An ace and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em as the cards are the first and last in a top straight
  • (book-ending) a framing device within which a main plot line is presented as being told or read to another, often embellished by the use of a voice-over narration throughout the film (as in Raising Arizona, The Princess Bride or Stand By Me)
  • (Bookends) Two TV ads, usually 15 seconds each, that run at the beginning and at the end of a commercial break.
  • (Bookends) Two commercial units, usually 15 seconds each, ordered to run specifically in the first and last position of the same commercial break.
  • (bookends) When you're on defense and you make a D, then you catch the next score. This is awesome.