Example sentences for: biography

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

  • He is currently working on a profile of Gore, a biography of Rosa Parks, and a biography of Henry Ford.

  • In 1986, he sued to block publication of Ian Hamilton's biography, In Search of J.D.

  • The biography reveals fascinating details about Evans' life and provides a new insight into his art, but critics say it gets weighted down by superfluous material the author would likely have removed had he finished the book, resulting in a somewhat "exasperating" tome (Margaret Loke, the New York Times ). Even worse, the ending, which details Evans' final years and death from drinking, is still in the form of unfinished notes by Mellow.

  • David Nokes has made a bold, provocative, and sometimes messy attempt to write Austen's life as if it were a novel whose outcome we didn't already know--"a biography written forwards," he emphatically declares in the introduction, which unfolds "as it was experienced at the time, not with the knowingness of hindsight."

  • The book has the breathless indulgence of a campaign biography ("Clint's lack of selfishness, his predilection for throwing scenes to other actors--partly out of generosity, partly out of a serene confidence in the force of his own presence ...


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