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Examples of novelette in a Sentence
bought a collection of his novels and novelettes
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The next year, Hao Jingfang became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo, for her novelette Folding Beijing.
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Yi-Ling Liu, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
The backstory of the novelette kept picking at my brain.
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Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
Flash fiction, short stories, and novelettes don’t usually get the same amount of attention as their longer counterparts, which is a shame.
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Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 15 Nov. 2018
In 2014, Mary Robinette Kowal earned a Hugo Award for her novelette The Lady Astronaut of Mars, set in an alternate history in which humanity is prompted to colonize outer space after a devastating meteor strike that destroys Washington, DC.
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Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 1 July 2018
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Etymology
First Known Use
1780, in the meaning defined above
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“Novelette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelette. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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novelette
noun
nov·el·ette
ˌnäv-ə-ˈlet
: novella
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