How to Use dust jacket in a Sentence

dust jacket

noun

• The dust jacket was torn.
• The spine is faded, the front inner hinge is cracked, the iconic dust jacket is gone.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2012
• The claim was published on his book’s dust jacket, not in the text, and it was later removed.
  — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• This image of the young Calder, which also appears on the book’s dust jacket, is the most striking in the book.
  — Henry Petroski, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• All that Slotnick’s copy is missing is the dust jacket.
  — Genevieve Walker, Bon Appetit, 15 May 2017
• And getting to hold in your hands a two-pound, 287-page manual of recipes with a foxy dust jacket is a rush the likes of which drugs got nothin’ on.
  — Brooks Headley, Bon Appetit, 2 May 2017
• Even the front and back dust jacket flaps were reserved for what is, in effect, a mini-essay about the book from Neil Gaiman.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• The book has a striking dust jacket that’s easily worth more than a thousand words.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2022
• The dust jacket of the Italian edition of The Catholic School tells its readers right away that the book is inspired by this near-mythical crime.
  — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• It’s why, as Jess Kuronen put it, the dust jacket of a book plays a considerable role in pricing.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2022
• This makes reading the titles on the dust jackets easier.
  — Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 4 July 2018
• Awraith stares out from the dust jacket of the final volume of Nigel Hamilton’s trilogy on Franklin Roosevelt at war.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 10 June 2019
• This new-style market, much lamented by purists, has driven the price of The Great Gatsby, in dust jacket, into six figures.
  — Jorge Dionis, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2013
• There is, for some reason, an image of the hardcover dust jacket, yellowed and crinkly, at the end of the e-book, just before the endpaper maps appear.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 July 2021
• The intensity of Murdoch’s gaze, boring into you from the dust jackets of her many novels, seemed a promise of the books’ contents.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2019
• The first edition dust jackets of the books vividly convey the differences between Uris and Hersey’s approaches.
  — Samantha Baskind, Time, 18 Apr. 2018
• Although the indexer, Paula Clarke Bain, is credited within the main body of the text (and self-indexed in the index), her name, like most who do her job, is not on the dust jacket with the author’s.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
• In another photo, Bette Davis, outfitted in stylish riding gear, read a book concealed by a dust jacket.
  — Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• Even a cursory glance at the dust jackets of Ferrante’s books reveals that the story continues to follow the two women into adulthood and old age.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 18 Nov. 2018
• Instead of just listing the books that Jackson Elias wrote, there’s a dust jacket for one that can be slipped over a hardcover and handed to an investigator.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• Visitors can also view the dust jacket that Tolkien drew for the 1937 edition of The Hobbit, which shows the mountains that Bilbo traversed during his adventures.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• Though employing less-nautical metaphors, the novel’s tongue-in-cheek title and comic-book dust jacket also give fair warning of Mr. Charyn’s intent.
  — Gerard Helferich, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• Under the dust jacket of her book, Beaton has hidden the silhouette of a duck, embossed into the cover with a pretty rainbow-wrapping-paper foil that shimmers like an oil slick.
  — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
• Mailbooks for Good is working with publishers to create dust jackets that transform into pre-paid and addressed envelopes.
  — Lauren Le Vine, Redbook, 2 Apr. 2013
• Value depends on rarity, condition and the dust jacket.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• Owners who sell toys and gifts do so because those items are more profitable than books; there’s more price flexibility with non-book merchandise because publishers print the maximum price on dust jackets.
  — Joyce M. Rosenberg, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• While judging a book by its cover is frowned upon, the #Girlboss dust jacket—Millennial pink, aggressively hashtagged, its subject front and center with a little black dress and a triumphant smirk—reveals the whole plot.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 1 July 2020
• It’s made of several heavy-duty materials to keep it safe: a black Cinefoil dust jacket, white heat-shield foil pages, nickel wire, stainless-steel head and tail bands and Kapton high-temperature adhesive.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 May 2022
• But that scene depicted on the dust jacket never actually happens in the Dallas resident’s debut novel.
  — Joyce Sáenz Harris, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
• Owners who sell toys and gifts do so because those items are more profitable than books; there’s more price flexibility with nonbook merchandise because publishers print the maximum price on dust jackets.
  — Joyce M. Rosenberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024