Examples of hardback in a Sentence
The store sells only hardbacks.
The book is sold only in hardback.
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Head over to the Natural Landscape Photography Awards site to see all the winners and runners-up, and pre-order a hardback book with the top entries at $70.
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2025
There are bookshelves teeming with dog-eared paperbacks, imposing hardbacks, critical anthologies, story collections, art books; my writer is also a reader, and a voracious one at that.
—Katie Da Cunha Lewin
september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
The set, remixed and expanded across multiple formats, will include a 5LP vinyl box set as well as a 4-CD box set, with both including a Blu-ray disc, replica tour poster and 100-page hardback book with a new essay by Stones expert Paul Sexton and exclusive photos from the album session and tour.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025
Ace Books began publishing the books in August 2024, and now there are already more than a million hardbacks in print.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2025
There are bookshelves teeming with dog-eared paperbacks, imposing hardbacks, critical anthologies, story collections, art books; my writer is also a reader, and a voracious one at that.
—Katie Da Cunha Lewin
september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
The set, remixed and expanded across multiple formats, will include a 5LP vinyl box set as well as a 4-CD box set, with both including a Blu-ray disc, replica tour poster and 100-page hardback book with a new essay by Stones expert Paul Sexton and exclusive photos from the album session and tour.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025
Ace Books began publishing the books in August 2024, and now there are already more than a million hardbacks in print.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hardback
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“Hardback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hardback. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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hardback
noun
hard·back
ˈhärd-ˌbak 
: a book bound in hard covers
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