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
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
He attended Santa Monica High School, and, according to a dust jacket biography from one of his books, enlisted in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024
She wishes she could ask Nikhil if he’s seen it—a small green clothbound book missing its dust jacket, the title embossed in a rectangle of black on the spine.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
