Examples of paperback in a Sentence
The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
The book is sold only in paperback.
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Quicksilver will be re-released in paperback on December 3, 2024, and a deluxe hardcover will follow in Summer 2025.
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
On October 22, the Duke of Sussex's memoir was released in paperback in the U.S., with the U.K. edition set to follow on October 24.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Robert Hardman's book, The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy, published by Pegasus, has new material in the paperback edition.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
In the study—Malaparte’s own, with a library of French paperbacks, Giraudoux and Hölderlin and Alphonse de Châteaubriant, disintegrating in the sea air—Porte Jacquemus speaks of his visions for the brand.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
On October 22, the Duke of Sussex's memoir was released in paperback in the U.S., with the U.K. edition set to follow on October 24.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Robert Hardman's book, The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy, published by Pegasus, has new material in the paperback edition.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
In the study—Malaparte’s own, with a library of French paperbacks, Giraudoux and Hölderlin and Alphonse de Châteaubriant, disintegrating in the sea air—Porte Jacquemus speaks of his visions for the brand.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Paperback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paperback. Accessed 30 Dec. 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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