Examples of paperback in a Sentence
The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
The book is sold only in paperback.
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While Another Roadside Attraction failed to garner much attention when it was first published in hardback, the paperback edition steadily became a word-of-mouth hit, especially on college campuses.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product.
—Mars King, Twin Cities, 30 Oct. 2024
Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, the paperback of which is out on April 9, 2024.
—Alissa Quart, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
So read the book now before the paperback gets one of those horrid movie-poster covers.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product.
—Mars King, Twin Cities, 30 Oct. 2024
Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, the paperback of which is out on April 9, 2024.
—Alissa Quart, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
So read the book now before the paperback gets one of those horrid movie-poster covers.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Paperback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paperback. Accessed 16 Feb. 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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