How to Use blurb in a Sentence
blurb
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Write a short blurb with link to video.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
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Write a short blurb with link to story.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
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Its marketing blurb touts the amount of square footage that can be added.
—Nancy Keates, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
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Lenin very much admired his book and gave it what today would be called a blurb.
—Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
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This blurb doesn’t even really count.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
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And finally… Write a short blurb with link to video.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
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At the moment, the stack of galleys on my desk waiting for blurbs.
—New York Times, 25 May 2023
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There was this little blurb about a kid who kept getting beat up by bullies on his block.
—Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 1 May 2018
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And the mob was there, perhaps nudged by a trending blurb on Twitter.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
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Allred estimated his unique blurb to be about a paragraph long.
—Tom Benning, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2020
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The Downshift sums up stories in short blurbs with links to the source for the full report.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 16 July 2026
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Notice that this few-sentence blurb never directly states that the man ate steak.
—Rob Toews, Forbes, 1 June 2021
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So your cover and title worked; now potential readers have your book in their hands to read the blurb.
—Yasmin Walter, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
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Cape Verde’s heroic goalkeeper Write a short blurb with link to video.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
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Harris wrote a blurb about the Kenosha Guard, which got picked up by Infowars.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
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In the children’s section, there is sometimes more text in the review blurbs than in the books themselves.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 30 May 2017
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While a lot of today’s blurbs are tongue-in-cheek, this one unequivocally isn’t.
—Sean Gentille, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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There was a blurb in the paper, as is often the case in traffic fatalities.
—John Archibald | [email protected], al, 19 Jan. 2020
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Put together an email to send your employees with some of this content and write a little blurb.
—Adrian Dayton, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
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The blurbs below come courtesy of the AFI Fest team.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
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The blurb on the back described it as a page turner, and Corrin nodded in approval.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
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Actor Hugh Grant promoted it and wrote a blurb for the cover.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 31 May 2026
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The honorees each received blurbs that close friends or collaborators wrote for them.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025
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Adams even wrote a glowing blurb for a 2016 book written by Armstrong.
—Michael Cavna, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
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The eventual American publisher can feel free to put that blurb on the back of the book.
—John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2017
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Next to the blurb is a photo of Schneiderman smiling in front of the seal of his elective office.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 9 May 2018
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The next day, Frazier penned a witty blurb and shared the plea to a Phillies fan club on Facebook.
—Lauren Rowello, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
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The blurb promises a one-last-job kind of story, fitting for the conclusion to a modern classic of the crime genre.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
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Get out your dream catchers, light up that incense, and join me in reading the blurb for New Zealand’s away shirt.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 10 June 2026
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Writing these blurbs has prompted Nguyen to learn about foods from different regions of Asia.
—Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
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