Example Sentences

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Novelists are taking note: tradwives star in a spate of recent books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The literary magazine has published its Best of Young British Novelists list every 10 years since 1983.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023

Novelists use it as a plot device, and it provides rainy, romantic interludes in countless Bollywood movies.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022

Novelists Joyce Carol Oates and John Cheever built bomb shelters into their fiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2022

To this Abuse some of our Authors of the first Rank have very much contributed: for the Modern Poets and Novelists have put 'em in the Mouths of their lowest Characters.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)