Examples of blurb in a Sentence
Noun
a blurb on a book jacket
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
Sometimes, blurb writers don’t read the entire book before heaping praise on an author’s latest effort.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
So what’s with the random Jason Statham blurb today?
—Yoni Heisler, BGR, 28 July 2021
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Noun
The blurb for the pic directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein: Plagued by a recurring violent nightmare, a college student returns home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
Sometimes, blurb writers don’t read the entire book before heaping praise on an author’s latest effort.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
Verb
To blurb books, to be on panels, to fly to LA, where her film agent whisked her to the opera in his white Porsche.
—Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
So what’s with the random Jason Statham blurb today?
—Yoni Heisler, BGR, 28 July 2021
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“Blurb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blurb. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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