Sentence examples similar to assembled a bookcase from inspiring English sources
If even the idea of assembling a bookcase brings you out in a cold sweat, spare a thought for those tasked with putting together a piece of furniture on a much more complex scale.
Like most middle-aged men who have ever assembled an Ikea bookcase or fixed a dripping tap by turning it off really hard, I have long harboured fantasies of jacking it all in and getting a proper job – the kind with a toolbox and a van to cart it around in.
Back at the carefree turn of the century, when our biggest problem was how to assemble a Billy bookcase without having to immediately divorce – you had to sign a pre-nup before you started about who would get to keep it – they turned that into the selling point.
At Stanford University, for instance, computer scientists are developing a robot that can use a hammer and a screwdriver to assemble an Ikea bookcase (a project beyond the reach of many humans) as well as tidy up after a party, load a dishwasher or take out the trash.
The same surely can't be said of shoppers at Ikea, unless craft activity includes assembling a flat-pack Billy bookcase – and doing so six times a year would send a body round the bend.
They assembled an ace team.
Then you assemble a recipe.
Assemble a Billy bookcase for me.
"The Upside of Irrationality" is also about getting to know our courtly narrator, who draws from his own daily experience to generate hypotheses about human behavior (like "the Ikea effect," which makes us overvalue things we have made ourselves, even if it's a wobbly bookcase assembled from a kit).
