Example sentences for: biographical

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

  • Critics are titillated by the biographical mysteries surrounding de Kooning's 1980s paintings, but maintain a genteel focus on the paintings themselves.

  • Little of Leonardo's weirdness is conveyed by the Codex Leicester exhibit--though Isabella Rosellini's blue-velveteen voice narrating the exhibit's eight-minute biographical video helps somewhat.

  • Yardley's conclusions don't add up to much in any conventional biographical sense, and he admits as much in his prologue: "[Exley] lived on another planet, if not in another universe."

  • And one is certain that Kenneth Rexroth, in his American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Herder and Herder, N.Y., 1971) did not intend to hint at closet biographical matter when, in Chapter I, he wrote that “Whitman's poems are full of men doing things together,” or, later in the same chapter, when he referred to “Whitman's joyous workmen swinging their tools in the open air.”

  • We have no problem accepting biographical criteria for literature.


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