Examples of blurb in a Sentence
Noun
a blurb on a book jacket
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Armond White, National Review, 23 July 2025
Writing with confidence and accuracy Business owners often reuse parts of vendor descriptions, industry blurbs or previous campaigns.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 27 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
The miscommunication that Scorsese’s blurb refers to as the essence of our crise is the product of both political tragedy and B-movie sensationalism.
—Armond White, National Review, 23 July 2025
Writing with confidence and accuracy Business owners often reuse parts of vendor descriptions, industry blurbs or previous campaigns.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 27 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 19 Aug. 2025.
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