How to Use storybook in a Sentence

storybook

1 of 2 noun

• That’s just been part of the storybook of this, and it’s been a lot of fun.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• This is storybook fall, with highs around 70 and tons of sun.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2022
• Who wouldn’t want to live in a storybook medieval town on a hill?
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• The boat took us to the Pont Neuf, one of Paris’s most storybook bridges, which was slathered in a honey-gold damier check.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
• The storybook ranch, also known as a Cinderella ranch, is a baroque-style take on the ranch house.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 11 July 2022
• The fluttering fairies of folklore seem to be free from the storybooks at last—fairycore home decor is here to stay.
  — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Dec. 2023
• At once a squirrel hopped from the ground to sit squarely on it, like a storybook creature whose task was to guard it.
  — Sigrid Nunez, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Just the name Wood Duck Pond conjures a storybook setting.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• What happened next for Perez was like something out of a storybook.
  — Jay Reddick, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
• Williams put a storybook bow on on a storybook season with a great game in the Cotton Bowl.
  — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
• That’s not to say his storybook career didn’t come with some speedbumps.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 23 Jan. 2024
• The 2021 season was something out of a storybook for Lovejoy.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Spears's home was transformed into a storybook fairy tale for the special day.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 June 2022
• But what might have been a storybook 2022 – running to a World Championships medal on his home track – strayed from script.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2022
• Having a chance to perform at the combine in front of all 32 teams in Indy adds to the hometown kid's storybook journey.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Mar. 2023
• This is more or less the standard arc of a genre that blends travel and food writing to arrive at a storybook ending.
  — Adam Federman, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
• With his feathered white hair and easy cackle, the artist could be a storybook character from Dr. Seuss.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
• Sony is taking on a live-action version of the beloved storybook about a 4-year-old with a magic crayon who draws things to life in the world around him.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
• The late rally ruined what appeared to be a storybook debut for France.
  — Tim Booth, Chron, 7 May 2023
• In one storybook scene, Maxima and Mathilde even shared a whisper — and a giggle!
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• In one storybook scene, Máxima and Mathilde even shared a whisper — and a giggle!
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
• Kids will learn a lot from this storybook that chronicles the true meaning of Easter.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 31 Jan. 2023
• Myung Hee Cho’s set is a storybook forest of three cheerful trees with gauzy, loofah-pouf foliage.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
• The Rabbit Hole will have galleries that bring storybooks to life, plus a printing press, theater, a cafe and a bookstore.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024
• Her final match brought to a finish a storybook run that kept us locked into the tournament this week.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
• In Kenya, the diverse landscape of the savanna is like something out of a childhood storybook.
  — Stephanie Walden, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2023
• The opera and ballet stagehands will work through the night, transforming the theater into storybook Spain.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2022
• There was no storybook ending, not on this night anyway.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Regardless of the weather, my room had the powdery gray light of a storybook orphanage.
  — Stephanie Danler, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• After Little’s storybook pin, Harford Tech went on to win four of the final five matches.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024

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storybook

2 of 2 adjective

• When the sun hits at the right angle, the city seems to shimmer, like the storybook city of Oz.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• And maybe, just maybe, the team that has been through so much will get the storybook finish.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2019
• The Hurts era at Alabama seemed to end and the storybook Tua era began.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2018
• South Korea co-hosts the World Cup with Japan and makes a storybook run to the semifinals.
  — Washington Post, 3 July 2017
• The Tale of Beren and Lúthien is more like a scholarly volume than a storybook.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 14 June 2017
• They were both long divorced and wary of senior romance, even of the storybook kind.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 27 Oct. 2017
• To close out the show, Hearst tossed the bouquet over her shoulder — a fitting end to the storybook occassion.
  — Kari Molvar, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Sep. 2011
• Lim Hyo-jun earned the honor and a huge home-crowd standing ovation for the storybook moment.
  — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• A few of the many storybook parks that opened in the 1950s - after the success of Disneyland - have or have had Crooked Houses inspired by the rhyme.
  — Emily Zentner, sacbee, 16 Apr. 2018
• Prosper dates to 1933, with a storybook written by Alain Saint-Ogan.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Osborne, 43, winces a little at the thought that his life has been a standard storybook rags-to-riches tale.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The Golden Knights wrap up a storybook year, advancing all the way to the final in their first year of existence.
  — Greg Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
• With 27 seconds to go, Thomas could have written the storybook ending: Good guys do win; fairy tales do come true.
  — Charlie Vincent, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2018
• Alai’s walk-off RBI double was something out of a storybook.
  — Steve Virgen, Daily Pilot, 5 May 2017
• This is one of the Kingwood Dance Theatre's three storybook-themed ballets.
  — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
• In contrast to the storybook romance, in which the man calls on the woman, their relationship flows both ways.
  — Jason Motlagh, Marie Claire, 18 Jan. 2018
• John and Abigail Adams had a storybook union that spanned half a century.
  — Stephen Coss, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• Porquerolles greets us with a storybook magic that needs no glitz.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2018
• The storybook aspect aside, though, whom does Salzburg have in uniform who could trouble the likes of Napoli and Liverpool?
  — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• John and Abigail Adams had a storybook union that spanned half a century.
  — Stephen Coss, Smithsonian, 24 Aug. 2017
• Enchanting vineyards dot the hills—where grapes have been growing since Roman times—and towns straight out of a storybook line the shores.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 13 June 2019
• Bring your book or bring your child’s favorite storybook.
  — Colleen Smith, The Denver Post, 29 June 2019
• For Raanta, signing the deal is a storybook ending in a year that has been rife with obstacles.
  — Richard Morin, azcentral, 6 Apr. 2018
• This storybook program takes your favorite children’s book and brings them to life.
  — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2018
• More storybook-like were the naive motifs that popped up at Bally, Bode, and Lanvin, where both Babar and the fairy-tale baddy, the sly fox, were used as accents.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2019
• And, quite possibly, the Rebels' storybook ending, as well.
  — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 9 July 2017
• The Cello Sonata in D Major has a storybook quality about it.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• The recruiting process has followed much like a storybook with a beginning, middle, and now, the end.
  — Pat Mashburn, NOLA.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Trask capped a storybook junior season by throwing for 305 yards.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 31 Dec. 2019
• The tale’s traditional storybook charm is overrun by a cacophony that isn’t easy to sort out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2020

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