Example sentences for: blurbs

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

  • In a typical college dictionary, which might have, say, 85,000 headwords the entry count (which is prominently displayed in the jacket blurbs) is about twice that, or 170,000.

  • blurbs in the ads (let alone the "No.

  • According to the blurbs, the former contains 2000 entries, the latter 2700; but the ODNW is more densely packed with information-- at least thirty per cent more, by my calculations.

  • 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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