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How to use paperback in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Paperback means a book with flexible binding. Example: “The publisher's core competency was paperbacks, but they decided to branch out into online publishing.”

Examples of paperback by meaning

verbTo issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.

  • Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.2009, J. Adamson, Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing, page 71

More sentences with paperback

  • The publisher's core competency was paperbacks, but they decided to branch out into online publishing.From the entry core competency
  • His new novel just came out in boards. The paperback will follow in about a year.From the entry boards
  • The drug store had a small rotating rack filled with paperback books provided by a rack jobber.From the entry rack jobber
  • My favorite young adult writer, Jen Derbyshire, just published her 50th paperback novel, the latest in an adventure series spanning fifteen years.From the entry young adult
  • If you have paperbacks or novels stored in deep shelves, make bookstops from free wood.2010, Sheryl Kindle Fullner, The Shoestring Library, page 107. From the entry bookstop
  • This small paperback book is a veritable tardis of tips on how to preserve the harvest glut.1999, The Organic Way, numbers 157-174, page 53. From the entry tardis
  • Fatherhood ($6.95) by Bill Cosby is a flexibound paperback edition of the popular bestseller.1987, Publishers Weekly, page 321, column 3. From the entry flexibound
  • The Silver Egg-Heads, originally a novelet, was expanded to novel length for a Ballantine Books paperback.1963 December, Sam Moskowitz, “Fritz Leiber: Destiny x 3”, in Amazing Stories, volume 37, number 12, page 88, column 2. From the entry scientifictionally
  • There were hardcovers, paperbacks, and ARCs in the mix.2021 December 22, Malka, “The Benefits of Unhauling Books”, in Paper Procrastinators, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2024. From the entry unhaul
  • The one format no one ever forgets is known as "French flaps", a paperback edition with folded flyleafs.2005 February 13, Nicholas Blincoe, The Telegraph. From the entry French flap
  • Soon bodice-rippers, the gothics, the "romance" novel advanced from paperback to hardback, from supermarket racks to book club selections.1993, William O’Rourke, “Catholics Coming of Age”, in Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970–1992, Albany, N.Y.…. From the entry bodice-ripper
  • I pulled out a paperback I had in my pocket.1968, John Fowles, The Magus, page 568. From the entry ladies'
  • Take for instance a paperback book.2022 May 4, Ryan Whalen, “Defining legal technology and its implications”, in International Journal of Law and Information Technology…. From the entry affordance
  • It was the usual sleazy food-machine - two tired waitresses behind a zinc counter loaded with cigarettes and candy and paperbacks and comics.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 118. From the entry sleazy
  • He has literary leanings, is reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, buying each volume as he can, in a paperbacked edition.1935 January 20, “Dickensian”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Apr 2009. From the entry paperbacked
  • Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about people’s tendencies and repressions (“Artist or Madman?” “Pet or Brute?”).2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry ascender
  • The popular "peephole" style of cover art, suggesting stolen glimpses into exotic interior territories at once psychological and geographical, literalized the voyeuristic appeal of early postwar paperback art.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 7. From the entry literalize
  • Even at the height of antihomosexual hysteria during the most overwrought day of the Cold War, a number of paperbacks appeared that dealt with male homosexuality.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 11. From the entry antihomosexual

Meaning of paperback

  1. noun A book with flexible binding.
  2. adjective Having flexible binding.
  3. verb To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.

Full definition of paperback

Questions about paperback in a sentence

How do you use paperback in a sentence?
Paperback is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “The publisher's core competency was paperbacks, but they decided to branch out into online publishing.”
What is a short sentence with paperback?
“Take for instance a paperback book.”
What does paperback mean?
Paperback means a book with flexible binding.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paperback (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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