Example sentences for: memoirs

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

  • But you'd think, judging from the press, that recent authors of memoirs had called incest or alcoholism or any number of species of abuse into being by writing about them.

  • Based on the best-selling memoirs of Susanna Kaysen, it follows a confused teen-age girl who checks herself into a mental institution and then finds that she can't check out.

  • His writing seems archaic and crude, and its self-indulgence seems stunning even in an age of memoirs.

  • Hagiographic memoirs about the legendary New Yorker editor from an adoring writer (Mehta) and Shawn's mistress of 40 years (Ross).

  • The weekly book reviews like such highbrow biographies as Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf (the New York Times Book Review ) and Jorge Castañeda's Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). Other reviewers fill their lists with celebrity memoirs, especially Mia Farrow's What Falls Away --a trend some critics bemoan.


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