Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Before then, only 18 had been printed, in small paperback editions known as quartos.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023

The others, often differing in numerous details, first appeared in the 1590s and early 1600s as cheap pamphlets called quartos.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

A couple of these men, John Heminges and Henry Condell, come up with the wild idea to publish all of Shakespeare’s scripts in a handsome bound folio rather than the cheap unauthorized quartos then available.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2017

Our knowledge of changes made to the quartos, as well as Florio's treatment of Boccaccio and Montaigne, suggests that there is a strong chance that they were.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013

Between the rose bowls the books were duly set out—a row of nursery quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily coloured image of beast or fish or bird.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley