Examples of paperback in a Sentence
The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
The book is sold only in paperback.
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The series, which has a robust social media following, has sold more than three million copies between paperback and audiobooks.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 June 2025
My job was to stock the new paperbacks that came in every week, make deliveries to downtown offices, and take the mail across the street to the little post office inside the Federal Building.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 June 2025
This was during the Great War, a terrible emergency, and before the invention of modern paperbacks.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Related Stories The exact paperback still sits on a bookshelf in his Upper West Side home to this day.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 6 June 2025
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 June 2025
My job was to stock the new paperbacks that came in every week, make deliveries to downtown offices, and take the mail across the street to the little post office inside the Federal Building.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 June 2025
This was during the Great War, a terrible emergency, and before the invention of modern paperbacks.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Related Stories The exact paperback still sits on a bookshelf in his Upper West Side home to this day.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 6 June 2025
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“Paperback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paperback. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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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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