How to Use audiobook in a Sentence

audiobook

noun
  • By this stage, the listener to this audiobook is probably reaching for a stiff drink.
    Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Some of his dad’s famous buds sang companion songs and narrated the audiobook.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Distract yourself with music or an audiobook: Don’t read.
    Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The audiobook version features two companion rock songs and cameos by a bunch of Broadway stars.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The physical copy of the book also contains bonus reviews of things like half title pages, which aren’t replicable in the audiobook.
    Serena Puang, The Indianapolis Star, 18 May 2021
  • The Duchess, who is expecting her second child in the summer, will also narrate the audiobook edition.
    Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 4 May 2021
  • Listening to the audiobook blew my mind, but discussing Frankl’s text with my peers in a book club added another dimension.
    WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Buy it in hardcover, Kindle, audiobook and audio CD here.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Backed by bare-bones audio flourishes, Stevenson seems initially to be narrating a simple and frankly unimpressive audiobook.
    New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Unrequited Infatuations is available to preorder and will be published in hardcover, e-book, and as an audiobook.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Sotomayor has built a franchise—with a younger-readers version of her memoir, an audiobook read by Rita Moreno, and three picture books—that has earned her close to four million dollars.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Published in 1938, Bowen’s brilliant, unsettling novel of innocence run amok is now available as an audiobook.
    Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service that grants you access to more than four million digital books, audiobooks, comics and magazines.
    Jennifer Adams, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2024
  • And audiobooks are not at all the same thing as a podcast.
    Paul Grimstad, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Hear about the art of the audiobook, and learn how to take your tabletop RPG story to the page.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The buzz: Of course Dylan would make a killer audiobook.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Michelle William’s performance of the scene in the audiobook.
    Vulture, 7 Dec. 2023
  • And this might not surprise anyone, but 2023 is the year that audiobooks took over.
    Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Sign up for a 30-day free trial and get two free audiobooks.
    Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Meanwhile 47% of those who read at least one audiobook read one to five books last year.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The Creepy School Bus audiobook comes out later this year.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 June 2022
  • The audiobook, priced at $14.99, is available to preorder at this link.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Johnson has recorded an audiobook version of The Lives of Brian but laughs off the idea of a movie based on it.
    Gary Graff, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Findaway started in 2005 has a wide array of brands in the audiobook space.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2021
  • To name a few: An audiobook, video game, and a Collector's Edition of the trilogies are all in talks.
    Janaya Wecker, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Like many libraries, West Haven has been grappling with the soaring costs of e-books and audiobooks.
    Susan Haigh, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
  • No wonder, then, the audiobook version of his memoir lasts 20 hours and change.
    Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2022
  • At 5 hours and 13 minutes, the audiobook is almost perfectly timed for the drive.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 13 July 2023
  • Sign up for a 30-day free trial and get two free audiobooks (including The Tattooist of Auschwitz).
    Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024
  • The book will be published in 16 languages and released as an audiobook read by Harry.
    Julianne McShane, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2023

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