He wrote a short blurb about the movie he had just watched.
Source: tatoeba (6534905)
Blurb
//blɝ(ː)b//
Synonyms for "blurb" (49 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (24)
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31 translations across 20 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- blakerteks noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- flapteks noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Arabic
1 entries- تَقْرِيظ noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Catalan
1 entries- sinopsi noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 大作廣告 /大作广告 noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Dutch
1 entries- flaptekst noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Finnish
2 entries- mainosteksti noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- takakansiteksti noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
French
1 entries- quatrième de couverture noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Georgian
1 entries- მოკლე ანოტაცია noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
German
3 entries- Einbandtext noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- Klappentext noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- Umschlagtext noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Hungarian
1 entries- fülszöveg noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Italian
1 entries- fascetta pubblicitaria noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Japanese
1 entries- 宣伝文 noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Norwegian
1 entries- brødtekst noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Persian
1 entries- تقریظ noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Polish
1 entries- blurb noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Portuguese
3 entries- resumo noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- sinopse noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- síntese noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Russian
2 entries- аннота́ция noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- рекла́ма noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Spanish
3 entries- resumen noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- sinopsis noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- síntesis noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Swedish
3 entries- anmälan noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- baksidestext noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
- puff noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Welsh
1 entries- broliant noun (a short description of a book, film, or other work)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The website displayed a small blurb of a blog post.
Source: tatoeba (6907663)
In a few weeks, blurbs would come back; a few, or many, depending on the book. There were certain writers we knew were always good for a blurb: Louis Untermeyer would always come through — poetry, fiction, humor — whatever, he'd send a well‐turned commendation.
Source: wiktionary
When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.”
Source: wiktionary
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