How to Use page-turner in a Sentence
page-turner
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On Sunday, the Wave delivered a plot twist worthy of a page-turner.
—Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
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For those among us who feel the need to check foot- and endnotes, that makes for, literally, a real page-turner.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
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Verity by Colleen Hoover (2018) From beginning to end, this is a page-turner.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 19 June 2023
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Read on for the five biggest revelations from the gripping page-turner.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
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Cast yourself as the protagonist of a page-turner, skim the selections below, then go ahead and book a trip.
—Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
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Foul play abounds in these page-turners Summer isn’t always carefree.
—Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
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While only one of the following could conceivably be a beach read (designer Misha Kahn’s first book), the rest are page-turners in their own right.
—Curbed Staff, Curbed, 12 June 2023
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This twisty page-turner promises a jaw-dropping ending.
—Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 29 July 2023
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Kang’s latest isn’t a page-turner, and reading it can feel like being suspended in time, or sitting through a very long class, despite the book’s slimness.
—Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
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This page-turner is more than a damning expose of a charismatic P.T. Barnum–like leader.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
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Financial history might not be known for page-turners, but Cohan’s books are impossible to put down.
—David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 6 Mar. 2023
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For perpetually curious types If the book lover in your life is on a constant quest for knowledge, this monthly subscription can be a nice change of pace from their latest page-turner.
—Angela Ledgerwood, wsj.com, 28 Oct. 2023
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While this entire memoir is a laugh-out-loud, introspective page-turner, the chapters on Saturday Night Live were the most illuminating to me.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 1 May 2023
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Series fans will be delighted at how Griffiths integrates many of Ruth’s past cases into the plot and ties up all kinds of loose ends while offering yet another page-turner of a mystery.
—Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
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In this book, a fast-paced, kind of magical-realist page-turner, the act of migration is rendered as a door: The characters step from one nameless country in which militants are taking over through a door and end up in Greece.
—Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
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Her newest page-turner, Drowning, spins a harrowing tale about a flight from Honolulu to San Francisco that crashes into the ocean six minutes after takeoff.
—Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
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Already an international hit, Gómez-Jurado’s smart page-turner has been made into an Prime Video series that will debut later in 2023.
—Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
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The series seizes on the book’s obsession with aesthetics, reimagining the 1955 page-turner as a Künstlerroman and its murderous antihero as an artist whose medium happens to be crime.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
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All of the Baztan novels are real page-turners, featuring an intelligent and emotionally intuitive female lead in Amaia.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
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The detailed description of these thoroughly informal and often illicit interactions, including hunting and fishing, logging, gem production, and shuttle trade makes the book a page-turner.
—Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
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Enjoying a real page-turner is definitely one of my favorite summer activities!
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 6 July 2023
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