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The dust jacket was torn.
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Here are six real books coming out this week, with dust jackets that reflect their real contents: mysteries and mishaps, often told with a sly smirk.
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Colin Dwyer, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025
These writers are expected to read the manuscript and craft a pithy review that publishers will use in promotional material, plastering it on the book’s dust jacket and front and back covers.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
Byers’s version had a paper dust jacket, torn at the corners.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
That lengthy description, which appears on the dust jacket as well as the title page, simply announces the multitudes contained within.
—William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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Colin Dwyer, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025
These writers are expected to read the manuscript and craft a pithy review that publishers will use in promotional material, plastering it on the book’s dust jacket and front and back covers.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
Byers’s version had a paper dust jacket, torn at the corners.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
That lengthy description, which appears on the dust jacket as well as the title page, simply announces the multitudes contained within.
—William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for dust jacket
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“Dust jacket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dust%20jacket. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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