How to Use dust jacket in a Sentence

dust jacket

noun

• The dust jacket was torn.
• The spine is faded, the front inner hinge is cracked, the iconic dust jacket is gone.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2012
• The claim was published on his book’s dust jacket, not in the text, and it was later removed.
  — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• The book has a striking dust jacket that’s easily worth more than a thousand words.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2022
• This image of the young Calder, which also appears on the book’s dust jacket, is the most striking in the book.
  — Henry Petroski, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• Even the front and back dust jacket flaps were reserved for what is, in effect, a mini-essay about the book from Neil Gaiman.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• And getting to hold in your hands a two-pound, 287-page manual of recipes with a foxy dust jacket is a rush the likes of which drugs got nothin’ on.
  — Brooks Headley, Bon Appetit, 2 May 2017
• Soft dust jackets and hardcover photo books are available in almost every colorway.
  — Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
• There is, for some reason, an image of the hardcover dust jacket, yellowed and crinkly, at the end of the e-book, just before the endpaper maps appear.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 July 2021
• In another photo, Bette Davis, outfitted in stylish riding gear, read a book concealed by a dust jacket.
  — Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• The intensity of Murdoch’s gaze, boring into you from the dust jackets of her many novels, seemed a promise of the books’ contents.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2019
• This new-style market, much lamented by purists, has driven the price of The Great Gatsby, in dust jacket, into six figures.
  — Jorge Dionis, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2013
• Preserving the dust jacket for future display seems superior.
  — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• The first edition dust jackets of the books vividly convey the differences between Uris and Hersey’s approaches.
  — Samantha Baskind, Time, 18 Apr. 2018
• We’re deprived of cracking open a hardcover, running our fingers across the smooth dust jacket, turning the bound pages, and engaging with the book itself as an object.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Awraith stares out from the dust jacket of the final volume of Nigel Hamilton’s trilogy on Franklin Roosevelt at war.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 10 June 2019
• Even a cursory glance at the dust jackets of Ferrante’s books reveals that the story continues to follow the two women into adulthood and old age.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 18 Nov. 2018
• The dust jacket of the Italian edition of The Catholic School tells its readers right away that the book is inspired by this near-mythical crime.
  — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• That includes everything from original artwork that would become the dust jackets for his books, first editions of his writing, and the library table seen in many images of the author.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2024
• Instead of just listing the books that Jackson Elias wrote, there’s a dust jacket for one that can be slipped over a hardcover and handed to an investigator.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• Imagine, though, that all the books ingested by LLM training sets only contained the information on the dust jackets.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• But that scene depicted on the dust jacket never actually happens in the Dallas resident’s debut novel.
  — Joyce Sáenz Harris, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
• Knopf presents us with a monochromatic dust jacket design, featuring alternate shades of blue in the text, underscoring racial ambiguity.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Owners who sell toys and gifts do so because those items are more profitable than books; there’s more price flexibility with non-book merchandise because publishers print the maximum price on dust jackets.
  — Joyce M. Rosenberg, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• Under the dust jacket of her book, Beaton has hidden the silhouette of a duck, embossed into the cover with a pretty rainbow-wrapping-paper foil that shimmers like an oil slick.
  — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
• Owners who sell toys and gifts do so because those items are more profitable than books; there’s more price flexibility with nonbook merchandise because publishers print the maximum price on dust jackets.
  — Joyce M. Rosenberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2019
• Even the dust jacket is embellished with one of Morris’ elegant designs from the museum’s extensive archives of decorative art.
  — April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2021
• Although the indexer, Paula Clarke Bain, is credited within the main body of the text (and self-indexed in the index), her name, like most who do her job, is not on the dust jacket with the author’s.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
• While judging a book by its cover is frowned upon, the #Girlboss dust jacket—Millennial pink, aggressively hashtagged, its subject front and center with a little black dress and a triumphant smirk—reveals the whole plot.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 1 July 2020
• Visitors can also view the dust jacket that Tolkien drew for the 1937 edition of The Hobbit, which shows the mountains that Bilbo traversed during his adventures.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018