verso

Example Sentences

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“Sobekmose,” a masterwork containing about 100 spells, is unusual, in part, because it’s inscribed recto and verso.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Exterior becomes interior — or verso becomes recto — in Leedham’s wittily jumbled tableaux.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

The lawsuit claimed that agreements signed by the jewelers contained illegible contract text in verso and therefore “cannot be binding.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022

The book is sexed: on your left you have a verso, in the middle your gutter, and to the right your recto.

From Slate • May 8, 2012

On the verso was an illustration of a centaur colt—Apple, I was sure—nuzzling a young man—Char.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine