Examples of page-turner in a Sentence
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Sebastian Junger’s In My Time of Dying is both a page-turner and difficult to read.
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 13 June 2024
This one's an absolutely gripping page-turner that will leave readers curious about whether or not anyone in the wedding party was involved.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
The detailed description of these thoroughly informal and often illicit interactions, including hunting and fishing, logging, gem production, and shuttle trade makes the book a page-turner.
—Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
Cast yourself as the protagonist of a page-turner, skim the selections below, then go ahead and book a trip.
—Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
All of the Baztan novels are real page-turners, featuring an intelligent and emotionally intuitive female lead in Amaia.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
The series seizes on the book’s obsession with aesthetics, reimagining the 1955 page-turner as a Künstlerroman and its murderous antihero as an artist whose medium happens to be crime.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
For those among us who feel the need to check foot- and endnotes, that makes for, literally, a real page-turner.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
In this book, a fast-paced, kind of magical-realist page-turner, the act of migration is rendered as a door: The characters step from one nameless country in which militants are taking over through a door and end up in Greece.
—Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
Christian Schneider, National Review, 13 June 2024
This one's an absolutely gripping page-turner that will leave readers curious about whether or not anyone in the wedding party was involved.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
The detailed description of these thoroughly informal and often illicit interactions, including hunting and fishing, logging, gem production, and shuttle trade makes the book a page-turner.
—Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
Cast yourself as the protagonist of a page-turner, skim the selections below, then go ahead and book a trip.
—Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
All of the Baztan novels are real page-turners, featuring an intelligent and emotionally intuitive female lead in Amaia.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
The series seizes on the book’s obsession with aesthetics, reimagining the 1955 page-turner as a Künstlerroman and its murderous antihero as an artist whose medium happens to be crime.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
For those among us who feel the need to check foot- and endnotes, that makes for, literally, a real page-turner.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
In this book, a fast-paced, kind of magical-realist page-turner, the act of migration is rendered as a door: The characters step from one nameless country in which militants are taking over through a door and end up in Greece.
—Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
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“Page-turner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/page-turner. Accessed 29 Jun. 2024.
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