Example sentences for: blurbs

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

  • Let us consider the dust-jacket blurbs of Cobuild, CED , and two other native-speaker dictionaries: the British Longman Dictionary of the English Language (Longman , 1984) and the American Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary ( W9 , 1983).

  • It is telling, indeed, about the anti-intellectual nature of this book that the blurbs on the back do not come from intellectuals or scholars at all but from popular black personalities and partisans for causes.

  • 6. Meet Joe Black (All blurbs for News Quiz on the Slate Table of Contents this week are inexplicable praise for this movie.)

  • In some cases, publicists write the blurbs themselves and find "critics" to accept attribution.

  • Times ' Kevin "I Gave At First Sight a Good Review" Thomas, correctly foreseeing that the studio would be desperate for advertising blurbs on this one, pumps the thing up: It's "a great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet."


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