Waterstones is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Waterstones meaning
plural of waterstone
Using Waterstones
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of waterstone
- In the example corpus, waterstones often appears in combinations such as: to waterstones, at waterstones, waterstones in.
Context around Waterstones
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Waterstones
- In this selection, "waterstones" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anchored, nearest, visiting, club, children and scottish stand out and add context to how "waterstones" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include before visiting waterstones in truro and done to waterstones club where. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "waterstones" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with waterstones
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Productivity at Waterstones went up, too. (6 words)
Dublin bookseller Hodges Figgis, owned by UK-anchored Waterstones, is doing the same. (13 words)
An author from Market has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2024. (15 words)
Find them hanging out of a Tube carriage in order to take a picture of the Underground ad campaign, or lurking in Waterstones to take pictures of the book display, glowering when a punter tries to buy one. (38 words)
In lieu of a social life, weekends were spent hovering around the mind, body and spirit section of our nearest Waterstones, hoping that a passing witch might invite me to join her coven. (33 words)
During her whistle stop tour of her home county, Bex also visited independent book shops that stock Children and Young Adult, including Liskeard, Lostwithiel, Penzance, and St Ives, before visiting Waterstones in Truro. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Fenwick and Waterstones will be hosting free story telling on Tuesday, February 14 and Friday, February 17.
He added: 'We went to Waterstones after he got the result and got him an A-level textbook.
The broadcaster will be signing copies of his new children’s book, Wings of Glory, at Waterstones in Bluewater.
Waterstones’s Ireland – which also has stores in Cork and Drogheda – currently has plans for a revamp of the Hodges & Figgis outlet including a minor refurbishment to the existing timber shopfront.
An author from Market has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2024.
Author SG MacLean makes her return to the festival to talk about her Jacobite thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness, which was Waterstones’ Scottish Book of the Year 2023.
Val will release 1980s-set Foster’s Mill on the afternoon of Thursday, November 21, at a book-signing at Waterstones, Jameson Street, Hull.
Waterstones owner Elliott is known for taking large stakes in struggling firms and pushing aggressively for change to try and bolster returns and share prices.
Dublin bookseller Hodges Figgis, owned by UK-anchored Waterstones, is doing the same.
In lieu of a social life, weekends were spent hovering around the mind, body and spirit section of our nearest Waterstones, hoping that a passing witch might invite me to join her coven.
That is the reason Sushant sir had shifted to Waterstones Club from Capri Heights for some days,” Neeraj quoted in his statement.
The agency claimed the delivery of weed was done to Waterstones Club, where Rajput was staying earlier, Primrose, Rhea’s residence, and Mount Blanc, his Bandra resident.
Waterstones has come under fire after claims that it is forcing staff to use holiday days if they need to self-isolate.
Although best sellers in Truro, near the southern coast of England, are different from best sellers in, say, Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, these Waterstones were essentially interchangeable.
A midnight reading at Waterstones in Piccadilly was attended by 400 book lovers, whilst an audience with the Canadian author at the National Theatre was beamed live to 1,300 cinemas.
During her whistle stop tour of her home county, Bex also visited independent book shops that stock Children and Young Adult, including Liskeard, Lostwithiel, Penzance, and St Ives, before visiting Waterstones in Truro.
Fans flocked to Waterstones’ flagship bookstore in Piccadilly, central London, where Atwood, 79, read from her new novel to around 400 avid followers who could get their hands on the book at midnight.
Find them hanging out of a Tube carriage in order to take a picture of the Underground ad campaign, or lurking in Waterstones to take pictures of the book display, glowering when a punter tries to buy one.
James Daunt, who has run Waterstones since 2011, is the new chief executive of Barnes & Noble.
Productivity at Waterstones went up, too.
Common combinations with waterstones
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to waterstones 4×
- at waterstones 4×
- waterstones in 3×
- in waterstones 2×
- waterstones will 2×
- waterstones club 2×
- waterstones has 2×
- waterstones to 2×
- of waterstones 2×