How to Use page-turner in a Sentence

page-turner

noun
  • But this one was a page-turner.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This one is a real page-turner.
    — Charlotte Observer, 15 Dec. 2025
  • These celebrity memoirs all look like page-turners.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
  • This sequel series’ journey to screen was quite the page-turner.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Foul play abounds in these page-turners Summer isn’t always carefree.
    — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Moms who love to read e-books will appreciate this page-turner ring for their Kindle.
    — Madeline Merinuk, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Read on to find your next entrepreneurial page-turner.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In other words, come for the audiobooks, stay for the literal page-turners.
    — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Read on for the five biggest revelations from the gripping page-turner.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • For those among us who feel the need to check foot- and endnotes, that makes for, literally, a real page-turner.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
  • On Sunday, the Wave delivered a plot twist worthy of a page-turner.
    — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Reese’s Book Club doesn’t just want to introduce you (or your book-loving friend) to a new page-turner.
    — Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And for our final deal of the day, there's a nifty remote control page-turner, scroller, and clicker device for just $7.
    — Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Cast yourself as the protagonist of a page-turner, skim the selections below, then go ahead and book a trip.
    — Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
  • Lost Lambs takes a thrillingly big swing and delivers a page-turner as full of snark as it is anchored in affection.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The Idea Of You is a steamy, risqué page-turner that nails the provocativeness and passion of its premise.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 6 May 2024
  • Anderson thus offers a readable page-turner that’s also attuned to those core questions.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried are bringing a shocking page-turner to the big screen.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • This is not a page-turner, but for those who enjoy immersing themselves in the beauty of language, there is much to love and to be enchanted by.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • This delicate balance is what transforms a good thriller into an unputdownable page-turner.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Harlan Coben is the master of twisty-turny page-turners and, increasingly, TV shows.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Financial history might not be known for page-turners, but Cohan’s books are impossible to put down.
    — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Peter Heller’s page-turners, typically set in the wild, peek beneath the hood of rugged masculinity.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Babygirl is as addicting as any romance page-turner and hotter than the most popular smut on the market, with a smart twist on female desire and power.
    — Helen Murphy, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This one's an absolutely gripping page-turner that will leave readers curious about whether or not anyone in the wedding party was involved.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
  • While only one of the following could conceivably be a beach read (designer Misha Kahn’s first book), the rest are page-turners in their own right.
    — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 12 June 2023
  • Peacock has been billing Teacup as a horror series, but the book it’s based on, Stinger, is really more of a sci-fi page-turner with some horror aspects.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Verity by Colleen Hoover (2018) From beginning to end, this is a page-turner.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 19 June 2023
  • This gripping page-turner — featuring a decades-old murder, a writer in town to tell the real story and an oncoming tempest — feels like it was ripped from the juiciest headlines.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The creeping horror at the center of Ishiguro’s science fiction is surrounded by the tensions of growing up in this literary page-turner.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025

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