Example sentences for: biographies

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

  • I trotted out the legendary biographies known to every practitioner of the trade--biography lore: Leon Edel's 20-year labor on his five-volume Henry James ("How long, Leon, how long?"

  • The survey also indicates that voters surf the Net to learn more about community problems, read candidate biographies, and determine who to vote for.

  • The author of sensitive biographies of Jackson Pollock and Joseph Cornell?

  • Excellent reviews for this doorstop-sized biography on the legendary financier: "a magnificent, insightful study" (Maury Klein, the Wall Street Journal ). Reviewers are impressed by Strouse's extensive research, which turned up a truckload of new details on Morgan's life and, more importantly, by the balanced portrait that she provides of a man whose biographies have to date been colored by vindictive accounts from contemporaries with axes to grind.

  • At the same time, he has managed to write or co-write eight books in the past seven years, including three full-scale biographies and a lively 600-page history of the United States.


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