Example sentences for: best-selling

How can you use “best-selling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Critics say that Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the best-selling travelogue set in Savannah fails to capture the book's quirky charm.

  • Britain's best-selling tabloid, the Sun , announced as a front-page "world exclusive" Friday that Texan model Jerry Hall has started divorce proceedings against aging rock star Mick Jagger at the High Court in London.

  • Even omitting some of the best-selling novel's more scandalous episodes (such as the future first lady jumping into bed with the young narrator), the picture cheerfully out-leers, out-winks, and out-nudges the book by the notorious Anonymous, a k a Joe Klein, transforming the Clinton campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination into a bumptious clown show and the voters into gullible dummies.

  • The simple facts are that American college (or desk) dictionaries today contain about 170,000 entries (about half that number of headwords), up from the ±130,000 they had till the 1960s); British concise dictionaries contain far fewer than that: the Concise Oxford , the best-selling dictionary in the UK, contains about 120,000 entries (probably not more than about 60,000 headwords), which is equivalent to what are classed as concise dictionaries in America.

  • He is better "than more conventional macho stars," despite "look[ing] barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). His sex appeal--also salivated over in two best-selling biographies--is expected to garner huge box-office returns.


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