Examples of paperback in a Sentence
The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
The book is sold only in paperback.
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Along with deleting TikTok off her phone, Merchant, sitting in a public park with a paperback novel, said she's embraced physical media like film photography and vinyl records in an effort to stave off a compulsion to doom scroll.
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
Or, as the release of their paperback nears, to write the sort of essay they were meant to be writing when their book originally came out — even if that essay is a rebuttal of this whole exercise.
—Tajja Isen, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
This essay is adapted from the afterword to the forthcoming paperback edition of his latest book, On China (Penguin, 2012).
—Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
Stacks of paperback books line the airy rooftop terrace of the Bowery Hotel in New York City, while makeup stations allow guests to try out the brand’s best-selling product, Unlimited Double Touch liquid lipstick.
—Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
Or, as the release of their paperback nears, to write the sort of essay they were meant to be writing when their book originally came out — even if that essay is a rebuttal of this whole exercise.
—Tajja Isen, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
This essay is adapted from the afterword to the forthcoming paperback edition of his latest book, On China (Penguin, 2012).
—Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
Stacks of paperback books line the airy rooftop terrace of the Bowery Hotel in New York City, while makeup stations allow guests to try out the brand’s best-selling product, Unlimited Double Touch liquid lipstick.
—Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
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“Paperback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paperback. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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paperback
noun
pa·per·back
ˈpä-pər-ˌbak 
: a book with a flexible paper binding
paperback
adjective
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