Example Sentences

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The move will mean owners of older Kindles, including its earliest models such as the Kindle Touch and some Kindle Fire tablets, will be unable to download new e-books.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Amazon stepped into the Netherlands in 2014 by selling eBooks and Kindles and launched a full shopping experience in 2020, letting Dutch businesses register online to sell more than 100 million products across categories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

And in an Orwellian twist, in 2009, Amazon remotely wiped the e-book 1984 off consumers’ Kindles due to a copyright dispute.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2023

More than 60 years before Kindles, Nooks, iPads and other electronic devices revolutionized reading, there was a gadget invented in a village in Spain that had the potential to do the same.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Maiden, God doth well To give us foresight of the sight of heaven By looking in such eyes as love like thine Kindles and veils for love's sake.

From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles