Example sentences for: nonfiction

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

  • It covers every angle a young media entrepreneur could dream of: highbrow nonfiction (the first comprehensive collection of King's sermons); innovative nonfiction (a King "autobiography" cobbled together from his writings); audiotapes of King speeches; high-tech (a fancy civil-rights Web site); and even a little snack for Dexter's ego (the young man's memoirs, which are to include his thoughts on health and nutrition).

  • In 1985, Morris received what was at the time the biggest advance ever paid for a work of serious nonfiction: $3 million.

  • Shunning the traditional organization, fiction and nonfiction, Paladin's catalog is arranged by categories including Sniping, Silencers, New ID and Personal Freedom, Action Careers, Combat Shooting, Knives and Knife Fighting, and Revenge and Humor.

  • The choice of profilees reflects not a fixation on celebrity but an enthusiasm for the underappreciated: network founders David Sarnoff and William Paley, the men who created television as we know it; Ernest Hemingway, interestingly seen as the father of modern American nonfiction; Bing Crosby, rather than Frank Sinatra.

  • The Times divides its best sellers into hardcover and paperback lists and then divides each of these into fiction, nonfiction, and a third category called "Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous."


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