Examples of paperback in a Sentence
The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
The book is sold only in paperback.
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On the commercial end, The White Album sold so well as a hardcover book—90,000 in its first printing alone—that Didion was able to sell the paperback rights at auction for $247,500, or over $1 million today.
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Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
And leave it to the Story Scouts to tell us about it in this paperback published by Anne Brataas, former Pioneer Press science writer and founder of Minnesota Children’s Press.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2025
The genre’s overreliance on pulpy paperbacks is turning into a problem.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
Then, one day, an army duffel bag of paperbacks arrived from my mother.
—Janet Rich Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
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Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
And leave it to the Story Scouts to tell us about it in this paperback published by Anne Brataas, former Pioneer Press science writer and founder of Minnesota Children’s Press.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2025
The genre’s overreliance on pulpy paperbacks is turning into a problem.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
Then, one day, an army duffel bag of paperbacks arrived from my mother.
—Janet Rich Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
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“Paperback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paperback. Accessed 20 Dec. 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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