dust jacket
Example Sentences
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The book’s dust jacket is scarce with Mr. Moore’s résumé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
At the time it had still had a cardboard binding and a torn paper dust jacket.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
