How to Use page-turner in a Sentence
page-turner
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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
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This sequel series’ journey to screen was quite the page-turner.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Apr. 2025
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Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried are bringing a shocking page-turner to the big screen.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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On Sunday, the Wave delivered a plot twist worthy of a page-turner.
—Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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Verity by Colleen Hoover (2018) From beginning to end, this is a page-turner.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 19 June 2023
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Read on for the five biggest revelations from the gripping page-turner.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
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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
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Foul play abounds in these page-turners Summer isn’t always carefree.
—Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
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Harlan Coben is the master of twisty-turny page-turners and, increasingly, TV shows.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025
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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
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This twisty page-turner promises a jaw-dropping ending.
—Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 29 July 2023
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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
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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
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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
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This page-turner is more than a damning expose of a charismatic P.T. Barnum–like leader.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Moms who love to read e-books will appreciate this page-turner ring for their Kindle.
—Madeline Merinuk, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
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But this one was a page-turner.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
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These celebrity memoirs all look like page-turners.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
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Lost Lambs takes a thrillingly big swing and delivers a page-turner as full of snark as it is anchored in affection.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
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