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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 that’s just a spaghetti-thin excuse to send the pals on a frenetic adventure through Italy with no time to crack open a paperback.
From New York Times
I contributed a preface to a paperback reissue of Samuel Schoenbaum’s definitive “Shakespeare’s Lives” and regard Irving Matus’s evidence-based “Shakespeare, in Fact” as a cogent refutation of the principal arguments for the Earl of Oxford.
From Washington Post
They might very well remember the precise page number of the paperback that was passed around middle school on which the most eye-opening passages appeared.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
