How to Use paperback in a Sentence

paperback

noun

• The book is sold only in paperback.
• The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
• Yard and garage sales were flush with the sale of paperbacks.
  — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
• Now the cards made a block about the size of a thick paperback book.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2024
• Want to pick up a stack of recent paperbacks — from inside a boat?
  — Michael Hingston, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• Sunday is a great day to get bargains on comics and trade paperbacks.
  — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• The mass market paperback is dead.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
• Long live the mass market paperback.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
• The woods and white musks remind me of cracking open a fresh new paperback novel.
  — Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2025
• The books must be paperback, be black and white inside and be in good condition.
  — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2023
• The next year, the paperback showed a girl running in the grass with zero gerbils.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2018
• So read the book now before the paperback gets one of those horrid movie-poster covers.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
• There’s a stack of paperback books with a Western novel on top.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026
• Her sister, close by, is absorbed in the final pages of a paperback.
  — Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026
• Then, one day, an army duffel bag of paperbacks arrived from my mother.
  — Janet Rich Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
• And the paperback version is still there — for the 287th week.
  — Amy Chozick, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• The paperback contains a new chapter, bringing the book up to date.
  — Moira MacDonald, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• The paperbacks are printed with cheap bindings and sell for as much as $20 a copy.
  — Michael Forsythe and Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2016
• The book was published in 2023 and the paperback is out just now.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
• Reid waves a paperback around before tossing it behind his back.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 June 2026
• The bar is stocked with wine and coffee, the walls are lined with books and the air is filled with the aroma of fresh paperbacks.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
• Readers can also find paperbacks on sale for up to 25% off.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
• The paperback copy is coming out on Tuesday.
  — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• Inside are a paperback, a phone charger and a bottle of store-brand ibuprofen.
  — Rey Covarrubias Jr, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• And finally, Sloane Crosley tells us about the joys of paperback books.
  — Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
• Lying on the sofa and reading paperbacks (which seemed to me like a great way to ease into the rest of one’s life).
  — David Ekerdt, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
• Read all about it in Andy’s book Tracers in the Dark, which is now out in paperback.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2024
• Now, piles of paperbacks and hardcovers stacked 15-high on the floor threaten to crush the cat.
  — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2019
• There will be books of all kinds, hardcover, paperback, fiction and non-fiction.
  — Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
• And yet, my favorite table at a bookstore will always be the new paperback table.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026