page-turner

Example Sentences

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"The Godfather is a page turner," Trigiani wrote, "but when I searched for the matriarch, she was sorely missing."

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

The story then becomes a page turner, as everyone slowly rises to the occasion and building repairs race against the approaching Hurricane Ella.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

I said Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove” was a page turner and a fascinating story about the Old West.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2023

It wasn't exactly a page turner, but he got the Economist to publish it.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2022

And of course, since she would be playing from the score, she needed a page turner.

From Violists by McGowan, Richard