How to Use blurb in a Sentence

blurb

noun
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  • As to what to order, the blurb recommends the Poe’s Raven.
    — Wesley Case, baltimoresun.com, 30 May 2018
  • The text is displayed as a short blurb over a user's avatar.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • At the moment, the stack of galleys on my desk waiting for blurbs.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • Its marketing blurb touts the amount of square footage that can be added.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • But this is a bag that goes above and beyond product blurbs — for a mere $1.29 to boot.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 2 May 2018
  • The next day, Frazier penned a witty blurb and shared the plea to a Phillies fan club on Facebook.
    — Lauren Rowello, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Harris wrote a blurb about the Kenosha Guard, which got picked up by Infowars.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
  • Here’s a blurb that was discovered in the beta version of the app: New!
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 15 July 2022
  • And the mob was there, perhaps nudged by a trending blurb on Twitter.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Lenin very much admired his book and gave it what today would be called a blurb.
    — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • In the children’s section, there is sometimes more text in the review blurbs than in the books themselves.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 30 May 2017
  • The blurb on the back described it as a page turner, and Corrin nodded in approval.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Next to the blurb is a photo of Schneiderman smiling in front of the seal of his elective office.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 9 May 2018
  • Plaudits include what appears to be a long blurb from Pearl S. Buck.
    — Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Adams even wrote a glowing blurb for a 2016 book written by Armstrong.
    — Michael Cavna, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The eventual American publisher can feel free to put that blurb on the back of the book.
    — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2017
  • Again, there’s no blurb-worthy self-praise from Bateman.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The telenovela aspect of course brings to mind Jane the Virgin, which is mentioned in the book’s blurb.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • There was this little blurb about a kid who kept getting beat up by bullies on his block.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 1 May 2018
  • On the phone, Goodman reveals all sorts of behind the scenes moments (many of which are published in blurbs throughout the book).
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
  • That returned a blurb about how popular the Packers are.
    — Jordan Kellogg, The Enquirer, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The post not only teased the cover art, but also featured a short blurb explaining the premise of the 13-track album.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2022
  • So your cover and title worked; now potential readers have your book in their hands to read the blurb.
    — Yasmin Walter, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • There was a blurb in the paper, as is often the case in traffic fatalities.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Read the blurb of history to learn a bit about the revitalization effort over the last 25 years.
    — al, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Yes, this is where Ubisoft’s hidden all the history blurbs about Ancient Greece.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 11 Oct. 2018
  • In the bottom left hand corner, a blurb explains how Paris, even back then, was one of the most popular cities in Europe (and still is).
    — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • The photo goes after the last line of your story, and the merchandise blurb below goes under the photo.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Allred estimated his unique blurb to be about a paragraph long.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Her story and the resignation of Casey merited a brief blurb in The Times in 1992, but the paper never mentioned her again.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024

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