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Example Sentences
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Like many cafes in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, the circa-1946 Café Giảng slots into the hectic, colorful streetscape like a narrow paperback on a library shelf.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
But what I think is more notable is how I do it: I read only hardcover or paperback books.
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2026
It lands somewhere between Disney fairy tale, ’80s romance paperback art and old Hollywood glamour.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
I read the paperback so often and so hard that I wore off the cover and had to stick it back on with tape.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
That Christmas, Mrs. Finley gave me paperback copies of both the comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
