How to Use blurb in a Sentence

blurb

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024