Example sentences for: biography

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

  • Still failing to identify the book (which must be the recent Acheson biography by James Chace), Bush said--and this is a verbatim transcription, checked against my tape--"The lessons learned are is that the United States must not retreat within our borders.

  • James Gleick in his 1992 biography, Genius, the Life and Science of Richard Feynman , quoted the Harvard philosopher, W.V. Quine: I think that for scientific purposes the best we can do is give up the notion of knowledge as a bad job...

  • The history of literary biography is like a yoyo--one century it careers toward the facts, the next it swings away from them.

  • The first major biography of the Cuban guerrilla--along with several forthcoming movies and his appearance on watch faces and album covers--is said to mark a reprise of Che Chic, with Che as a pop icon, devoid of political import.

  • 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.


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