dust jacket

Example Sentences

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If a dust jacket is torn on a coffee table book or cookbook, she’ll remove it, often revealing a cover with a “beautiful, classic, simple style.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025

Secreted inside the technobabble dust jacket was a Polish-language copy of George Orwell’s “1984,” the boring cover a deliberate misdirection to deter prying eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025

To paraphrase the dust jacket of my own book, "If We Survive This": these are not the girls who survive.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025

Unless, that is, you're Louis Walsh, who gave Cragg an unforgettable pull-quote for the dust jacket.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2023

It still had a brightly colored paper dust jacket with a picture that Meggie couldn’t make out from a distance.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke