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

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 could never let Holly Gibney go," he says in a blurb for the new book.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023

Matt read the blurb under the picture: Esperanza Mendoza, the ex-wife of Senator Mendoza, is a charter member of the Anti-Slavery Society of California.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer