Example sentences for: autobiographical

How can you use “autobiographical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Since Stein's fans tend to fetishize all things experimental, this straightforward, painfully autobiographical book (Stein was hurt by a failed love affair the summer she wrote it) has generally been dismissed as wooden, of interest only for its lesbian subject matter.

  • He was a teen-age hood in New Orleans--his (terrible) autobiographical movie, I'm Bout It , hints that he was a major crack-house operator--and he likes to say that his music is "authentic."

  • As D. H. Lawrence once wrote, in an autobiographical poem called Red-Herring:

  • An autobiographical essay describes what it's like to owe huge amounts of money.

  • As the Italian chemist Primo Levi dramatically was reminded when a flask blew up in which he was trying to refine benzene under wartime-scarcity conditions, one of several remarkable escapes from death recounted in his collection of autobiographical essays published as The Periodic Table (Schocken, New York: 1984).


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