Examples of blurb in a Sentence
Noun
a blurb on a book jacket
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Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
In a blurb, Denise Newman says of this translation from the original Danish,
Duncan Wiese’s subversive pastoral Tityrus shows how fraught life has become for the Arcadian shepherds among us.
—Diana Arterian
june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
Nonetheless, Penn was allowed to publish this novel, and Salman Rushdie blurbed it.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 31 Mar. 2018
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Noun
Value for money suddenly gained traction in the consumer sector this year, and has become a frequent mention in the AI blurbs on Amazon.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
In a blurb, Denise Newman says of this translation from the original Danish,
Duncan Wiese’s subversive pastoral Tityrus shows how fraught life has become for the Arcadian shepherds among us.
—Diana Arterian
june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 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
Nonetheless, Penn was allowed to publish this novel, and Salman Rushdie blurbed it.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 31 Mar. 2018
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“Blurb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blurb. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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