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Example Sentences
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Larry’s the pragmatic choice, but Luke is the romantic one, down to his handsome, chiseled features right out of a supermarket paperback.
From Salon
Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.
But Isaac is a literature guy, toting around a paperback of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s “Blindness” to underscore that neither one of them sees their mismatch clearly.
From Los Angeles Times
Some of the performers fans have travelled from other towns and cities to grab his old paperbacks, some of which contain annotations by Cave.
From BBC
There are two recipes I return to every summer, like the way some people revisit a favorite trail or reread a dog-eared paperback.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
