Example sentences for: memoir

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

  • Arriving as it does on the tail end of the Paula Jones disaster, Frances K. Conley's memoir of sexism at Stanford may encounter a kind of sexual-conflict fatigue and miss the attention it deserves.

  • A Memoir

  • Journalist Christopher Dickey's combination memoir and biography of his poet and novelist ( Deliverance ) father, James Dickey, is praised as a "loving, ruthless portrait" (Lance Morrow, Time ). Although he cleaned up his act a couple of years before dying, Dickey Sr. spent much of his life boozing, telling self-aggrandizing tall tales, and openly cheating on his wife.

  • Luis Rodriguez has written a wonderful memoir, dedicated to his son, that depicts the crazy life he led in Los Angeles in the 1970s.

  • Kincaid's memoir of her impoverished childhood in Antigua, occasioned by the death of her half-brother from AIDS.


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