Definition of blurb
: a short publicity notice (as on a book jacket)
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Examples of blurb in a Sentence
a blurb on a book jacket
Recent Examples of blurb from the Web
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Blurb's involvement in the book was to supply online software to create the e-book and to host the book for sale.
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The eventual American publisher can feel free to put that blurb on the back of the book.
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Sadly, these blurbs refer to nearly half the season, as there are only seven episodes for Season 7.
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In the children’s section, there is sometimes more text in the review blurbs than in the books themselves.
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Her subjects are often featured in black-and-white portraits, captioned with a blurb on the woman's historical legacy and sometimes a direct quote.
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This novel is afflicted with an unfortunate Anthony Doerr blurb calling LaValle a mix of Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison.
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Kenneth James, the editor of the journals, includes half a dozen such blurbs from different notebooks.
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The bigger point is that both Chicago and Illinois have many more positive points than the news blurbs others pounce on to try and bring us down.
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Origin and Etymology of blurb
coined by Gelett Burgess
Other Printing Terms
epigraph, errata, leader, mechanical, notch, tittle, underscore, widow
blurb
Definition of blurb
transitive verb
: to describe or praise in a blurb
First Known Use of blurb
1915
BLURB Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of blurb for English Language Learners
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: a short description that praises something (such as a book) so that people will want to buy it
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