Similar words: blur, blurt, blurt out, slur, lurk, lure, lurid, lurch. Meaning: [blɜːb] n. a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books).
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1. This book fails to give what the blurb describes.
2. The blurb says that this is Tarantino's greatest movie.
3. The blurb on the back of the book says that it 'will touch your heart'.
4. The blurb on the back of the book was full of the usual hyperbole - 'enthralling', 'fascinating' and so on.
5. As for the blurb, do not read it.
6. Blurb a short description or commentary of a book or author on a book jacket.
7. The aim, says the blurb, is to develop other publishing and ancestor-tracing businesses.
8. The Arizona Daily Star carried one short blurb in the back pages, but that was it.
9. According to the official blurb, it means more consistent and comfortable shifting with improved performance and fuel economy.
10. He gets a kick out of reading the blurb on cereal boxes.
11. In the blurb I couldn't see anything about thinking at all.
12. I could image the blurb he would have already written about her powers of observation.
12. Wish you will love sentencedict.com and make progress everyday!
13. Romeo and Juliet, the blurb explains, is set in modern - day Japan.
14. Nature is a kind of poetry for him; an Ecosphere is a book jacket blurb about the real thing.
15. But as aspiring authors know, there is more to a blockbuster than a fulsome blurb.
16. We each take a few seconds to consider a one hundred forty character blurb and then hammer out our reactions by way of a Tweet or status update.