blurb

Example Sentences

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Patchett provided a cover blurb for “The Correspondent,” a dusting of star power that helps attract bookstore browsers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

In the blurb to the exhibition, Wintour writes that she has “probably spent a year of my life waiting for fashion shows, which are famously tardy, to begin”.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2024

The weeks leading up to a release can be long and exhaustive, with questionnaires, blurb requests, and audiobook recordings to take care of.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2024

Her story and the resignation of Casey merited a brief blurb in The Times in 1992, but the paper never mentioned her again.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024

I didn’t understand how Fred’s death could be reduced to a blurb.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen