Example sentences for: biography

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

  • But many people interested in such things have never heard of Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, The Edinburgh Review, Century Magazine , and others that provided intellectuals with a worldwide communications network on such diverse subjects as Shakespeariana, Danteiana, the origin of visiting cards, the etymologies of words like punch, noyade, and ha-ha , amendments and emendations to the Dictionary of National Biography , showers of frogs, pub names, usage and grammar, ancient customs, superstitions, law, dialecticisms, rhyming slang, and the longevity of horses.

  • It was in many ways an almost inevitable project for me: I am from Chicago, Bellow's turf; my first biography, of Delmore Schwartz, had closely paralleled Humboldt's Gift , Bellow's novel about Schwartz; I was steeped in the Jewish immigrant world he wrote about.

  • Almost every critic has heaped praise on the second volume of John Richardson's biography of Pablo Picasso, which covers the painter's cubist period.

  • Each was the subject of a biography by James Mackay that faced charges of plagiarism.

  • This is the billing for a new biography of N.C.


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