Examples of 'dime novel' in a sentence
Meaning of "dime novel"
dime novel - a type of inexpensive and sensationalistic novel that was popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These novels were typically sold for ten cents (a dime) and featured melodramatic and often formulaic stories
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- A cheap pulp novel produced in 19th-century America.
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Dime novel heroes from another day.
It was all right out of some dime novel.
A dime novel was intended to be read for pleasure.
He is not smart enough to read a dime novel.
With a dime novel dream.
Reminds you of the cover on a dime novel.
No dime novel excuses . You made your choice between Chatelin and me.
I seemed to have walked right into a dime novel.
A dime novel hidden in the corn crib?
This is better than a dime novel.
That 's dime novel stuff.
The secondary hero of a dime novel.
Some gumshoe in a dime novel loose-cannoning around the city?
I took him just like the dime novel says.
Some gumshoe in a dime novel loose-cannoning around the city? Consorting with known mobsters!
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This is not a dime novel.
The dime novel is sensationalist fiction originating in the 1860s.
I sound like a dime novel.
So I turned to you, dime novel heroes, so predictable, steadfast, and true.
Some gumshoe in a dime novel.
Dime Novel Round-Up.
Cattle Annie was an outlaw with the dime novel dream.
In America a version of the penny dreadful became popularly known as a dime novel.
Well, I took him just like the dime novel said.
I thought the legend of Joaquin 's family tragedy was just some myth from an 1854 dime novel.
Remy, it sounds like a dime novel.
What you are suggesting is beyond absurd . This is not a dime novel.
That he 's in a dime novel.
I did not know it, but I was literally writing a dime novel.
Goodness . I sound like a dime novel.
What? I seemed to have walked right into a dime novel.
Why did you come storming out of the bedroom like a dime novel hero?
Boy, you are right out of a dime novel.
Sitting Bull 's worth five cents of any man 's dime novel.
Why, sure thing, Colonel . Sitting Bull 's worth five cents of any man 's dime novel.
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