How to Use page-turner in a Sentence

page-turner

noun

• The Idea Of You is a steamy, risqué page-turner that nails the provocativeness and passion of its premise.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 6 May 2024
• This sequel series’ journey to screen was quite the page-turner.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Apr. 2025
• Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried are bringing a shocking page-turner to the big screen.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
• On Sunday, the Wave delivered a plot twist worthy of a page-turner.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
• And for our final deal of the day, there's a nifty remote control page-turner, scroller, and clicker device for just $7.
  — Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
• For those among us who feel the need to check foot- and endnotes, that makes for, literally, a real page-turner.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
• Verity by Colleen Hoover (2018) From beginning to end, this is a page-turner.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 19 June 2023
• Read on for the five biggest revelations from the gripping page-turner.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• Cast yourself as the protagonist of a page-turner, skim the selections below, then go ahead and book a trip.
  — Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
• Foul play abounds in these page-turners Summer isn’t always carefree.
  — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Harlan Coben is the master of twisty-turny page-turners and, increasingly, TV shows.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025
• While only one of the following could conceivably be a beach read (designer Misha Kahn’s first book), the rest are page-turners in their own right.
  — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 12 June 2023
• This twisty page-turner promises a jaw-dropping ending.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 29 July 2023
• This is not a page-turner, but for those who enjoy immersing themselves in the beauty of language, there is much to love and to be enchanted by.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• Peacock has been billing Teacup as a horror series, but the book it’s based on, Stinger, is really more of a sci-fi page-turner with some horror aspects.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
• Kang’s latest isn’t a page-turner, and reading it can feel like being suspended in time, or sitting through a very long class, despite the book’s slimness.
  — Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• This page-turner is more than a damning expose of a charismatic P.T. Barnum–like leader.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• Peter Heller’s page-turners, typically set in the wild, peek beneath the hood of rugged masculinity.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
• Babygirl is as addicting as any romance page-turner and hotter than the most popular smut on the market, with a smart twist on female desire and power.
  — Helen Murphy, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
• The creeping horror at the center of Ishiguro’s science fiction is surrounded by the tensions of growing up in this literary page-turner.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
• Sardonic and genuinely startling, Horror Movie is a page-turner for any genre buff who's ever wasted away in a YouTube video essay rabbit hole.
  — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 28 June 2024
• Financial history might not be known for page-turners, but Cohan’s books are impossible to put down.
  — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 6 Mar. 2023
• Told in lively, propulsive prose, Kahler’s examination of the community’s rise and fall is a page-turner that will be difficult for readers to put down.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• For perpetually curious types If the book lover in your life is on a constant quest for knowledge, this monthly subscription can be a nice change of pace from their latest page-turner.
  — Angela Ledgerwood, wsj.com, 28 Oct. 2023
• The evangelical marketplace brimmed with works of Christian horror, like those of the prolific Frank Peretti, who penned page-turners about demons lurking in small-town America.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• While this entire memoir is a laugh-out-loud, introspective page-turner, the chapters on Saturday Night Live were the most illuminating to me.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 1 May 2023
• This one's an absolutely gripping page-turner that will leave readers curious about whether or not anyone in the wedding party was involved.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
• Series fans will be delighted at how Griffiths integrates many of Ruth’s past cases into the plot and ties up all kinds of loose ends while offering yet another page-turner of a mystery.
  — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
• In this book, a fast-paced, kind of magical-realist page-turner, the act of migration is rendered as a door: The characters step from one nameless country in which militants are taking over through a door and end up in Greece.
  — Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
• That Simon & Schuster page-turner is being published in mid-July and includes stories and insights from friends, classmates, teachers, colleagues and former lovers.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 27 June 2024