Example sentences for: blurbs

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

  • In return, they provide the blurbs quoted in advance newspaper ads ("An ending that will knock your socks off"-- Tucson Gazette ). The junketeers deliver these squibs, which seldom appear in actual reviews, to the studio publicists.

  • Your regular column "Summary Judgment" bears the subtitle "Reviewers reviewed" but, in fact, it does not resemble the "review of reviewers" that used to run in Spy as much as it resembles a "review revue" (a title previously used by the paper I work for, the Stranger , when we condensed reviews from The New Yorker , Rolling Stone , the Village Voice , and others into three-word blurbs to run in a table atop our film listings).

  • USAT blurbs the story inside.

  • 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."

  • 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).


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