book up

verb

1. to make a reservation (for); book
2. See booked up

Example Sentences

A bodyguard and my interpreter told me to pick the book up immediately.

From The Daily Beast

The Tudor period is well-trodden ground in historical fiction and I admit I picked this book up wearily, thinking I knew it all.

From The Daily Beast

And I thought, “You know, I should pick this book up again.”

From The Daily Beast

You know that memory that stays with you long after you place the book up onto the shelf?

From The Daily Beast

Here the pale gentleman, evidently annoyed by being talked across, shut his book up, and looked round.

From Project Gutenberg

So he promised to do his best, and when the gong sounded, took his little book up into the bedroom with him.

From Project Gutenberg

I have a drawing of one of these contrivances in a book up at the house, and when the time comes, you boys shall make me one.

From Project Gutenberg

You can pick the book up and open it anywhere without following a course of reading or instruction to understand it.

From Project Gutenberg

He would stick a book up in front of him—Eppy something or other—and read the whole time.

From Project Gutenberg