The word “book” is a noun referring to a set of written, printed, or digital pages bound together, or to a literary work in general. Writers also use it in a broader sense to refer to records, registers, or even figuratively to destiny (“the book of life”). The examples below are drawn from authentic works of fiction and nonfiction to show how “book” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences
I placed the paper on a book as before, and sat for some minutes thoughtfully revolving the matter over in my mind.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
22 words, 115 characters
It was Tars Tarkas, and I could read his thoughts as they were an open book for the undisguised loathing upon his face.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
23 words, 119 characters
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
I placed the slip of paper on the back of a book, and, collecting the fragments of the phosphorus matches which I had brought from the barrel, laid them together upon the paper.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
33 words, 177 characters
He strongly advised me, among others, to prepare at once a full account of what I had seen and undergone, and trust to the shrewdness and common sense of the public—insisting, with great plausibility, that however roughly, as regards mere authorship, my book should be got up, its very uncouthness, if there were any, would give it all the better chance of being received as truth.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
67 words, 382 characters
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