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

Consider applying a Mylar dust jacket cover to books that warrant special protection.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

Eleanor had decided to leave the dust jacket on because it was neat-looking, even though it still had a thrift-shop price scrawled on the front with grease pencil.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell