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• She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.From the entry paint
• Encyclopedias, how-to manuals and biographies are all considered nonfiction and so are kept in the nonfiction section.From the entry nonfiction
• Reading business biographies is interesting, but they are not cookbooks that can teach hacks how to be greats.From the entry cookbook
• A biography of Taylor Swift is more likely to sell well than a biography of Keats.2021, Daniel T. Willingham, Why Don’t Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It…. From the entry Taytay
• Baker’s barn: piles of Churchill; of Herbert Hoover’s postpresidential papers; war records, biographies, letters, diaries.2008 March 4, Charles Mcgrath, “A Debunker on the Road to World War II”, in New York Times. From the entry postpresidential
• It made "Arts & Letters Daily" s'morning -- the third Meyers biography review to do so.2000 October 23, Martha Bridegam, “New Orwell biography”, in alt.books.george-orwell (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Mar 2026. From the entry s'
• Thus, any attempt to write a biography of McClellan inevitably "devolves into a psychograph."1998, Thomas J. Rowland, George B. McClellan and Civil War History, →ISBN. From the entry psychograph
• As this passage suggests, Masters is a graduate of the Arslikhan school of biography.1996, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, Verso, →ISBN, page 226. From the entry arslikhan
• An extended biography of Ch'ü is not called for here, as enough is given in the record.1934 July, L. Carrington Goodrich, “The Posthumous Adventures of a Chinese Poet”, in The Open Court, volume XLVIII, number 930, New Orient…. From the entry P'an-yü
• But no miniature in enamel is this orthodoxly lengthy, appendixed, annotated biography of Byron.31 March 1930, “Don Juan”, in Time. From the entry orthodoxly
• He even ghosted biographies for some of the biggies.1997, Jaqueline Girdner, A Cry for Self Help, page 137. From the entry always a bridesmaid, never a bride
• Presidents is a CD-ROM ($40) containing biographies, portraits, and information about 41 presidents, with audioclips from public speeches made this century.1994, Darcy DiNucci, Elizabeth Castro, Aileen Abernathy, David Blatner, Connie Guglielmo, John Kadyk, Henry Norr, Bob Weibel, editors, The…. From the entry audioclip
• He spurns “neuters and geldings” in favor of “men and women fully equipt.” This is not biography but psychography.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry psychography
• Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture.1932 August 8, “Cinema: The New Pictures”, in Time. From the entry kept woman
• This was a useful and popular work, though it omitted from its scope theology, biography, antiquity and poetry.1920, George Edwin Rines, editor, Encyclopedia Americana^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_Americana_(1920)), Volume X…. From the entry encyclopedia
• The number of biographies in the list does not surprise Greer because he detects an implicit “great man” theory of history in the canon.2024 August 31, John Naughton, “Can you judge the tech bros by their bookshelves?”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry great man theory
• Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism.2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC. From the entry fundamentally
• Such instances of chosen heteronomy thus allow for notions of queer citizenship, queer biography, queer dynasticity in ways that love does not.2012, Adrian Daub, Uncivil Unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism. From the entry dynasticity
• The audiotape of Alan Clark’s Diaries — barely mentioned in this rather Dr Watsonish, sensible shoe of a biography — is well worth hearing.2009 October 3, Craig Brown, “Was his diary his downfall?”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023. From the entry Dr Watsonish
• Of course, for a number to have a biography, we need to assume that none of its digits are present more than nine times.2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv, page 3, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024. From the entry nine
• Websites tend to be designer-led and run by professional webteams rather than actively managed by the politicians whose photographs and biographies adorn the pages.2003, R. K. Gibson, Political Parties and the Internet: Net Gain?, page 205. From the entry webteam
• Pirrup's self-lacerating autobiography was the superior snobography, the true inside story, not the omniscient narrator's satiric yet forgiving biography of Arthur Pendennis.2002, Jerome Meckier, Dickens's Great Expectations: Misnar's Pavilion Versus Cinderella. From the entry snobography
• Scholes, and a biography of Chopin.1995, Alan Sillitoe, Life Without Armour, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry bedjacketed
• The biography is an enormously powerful reflector of mainstream values: it is a statement that this person is someone, or did something, worth writing about.1982 August 28, Rob Kaplan, “Gaps in the Glass”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 8. From the entry reflector
• Where the biographee is the founder of a school, the biography will be mentioned in conjunction with the treatment of the school.1977 June, Robert E. Wood, “Philosophy in the New Encyclopaedia Britannica”, in The Review of Metaphysics, volume 30, number 4, page 719. From the entry biographee
• It is really monarchology, a biography of kings, with a record of battles and kingly doings, not a history of the people.1914, “Some Foreign Reviews”, in The Review of Reviews, volume L, section “Spanish”, subsection “A Biography of Kings”, page 146, column 2. From the entry monarchology
• The biography bears the ever-accompanying character of historical writings, with this aim: the obscuring of unpleasant episodes, the promotion of all geese to swanship.1912, The Nation, page 15. From the entry swanship
• Offset photos show him absorbed in a biography of acting hero Buster Keaton upon whom Bowie modelled his stone face — 'on which you could read anything'.2022, Ian Dixon, Brendan Black, I’m Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor. From the entry offset
• As Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman showed in his brilliant biography, Cheney deployed his masterful knowledge of policymaking to exert influence at all levels of government.2016 July 11, Julian Zelizer, “The vice presidency is no longer a joke”, in CNN. From the entry barton
• In the arts alone, Raphael, Rembrandt, Jackson Pollock, Picasso, and John Lennon were all given the pathographic treatment in the later eighties—the latter two in notorious biographies.2016, Tom O'Brien, The Screening of America. From the entry pathographic
• Released to coincide with the centennial of Bellow’s birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, Leader’s Bellovian tome is just the first installment of a projected two-volume biography.2015 June 7, Steven G. Kellman, “Becoming Bellow”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 287, number 158, page N11. From the entry Bellovian
• Touring with Ninja was nothing like legendarily scabrous Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods: forget coke and groupies, Ninja artists struggled instead with their debilitating addictions to vinyl.2010 September 21, Stevie Chick, “Ninja Tune Week: An Extract from Stevie Chick’s 20 Years of Beats and Pieces”, in The Quietus. From the entry legendarily
• Furthermore, this vision invites us to thematize the sociocosmic biography of the exploited life, creatively pushing beyond the dialectical sociobiography of minjung and the innocent anthropocosmic vision.2010, Heup Young Kim, Christ and the Tao, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry sociocosmic
• Some of your narratives are fiction, like your favorite daydreams; some are nonfiction, like your current narrative; one is autobiographical; some are biographies of other people; and so on.2010, Lee Roy Beach, The Psychology of Narrative Thought, page 42. From the entry chronicular
• Indeed, if a number does not have nines, you can remove or add zeroes at the end of a biography to get another biography of the same number.2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv, page 3. From the entry nine
• Wechsberg’s profile is a relative rarity: compared with the chef, who has inspired piles of confessionals and biographies, the great restaurant host is an underexamined creature.2007 January 14, Sara Dickerman, “Are You Being Served?”, in New York Times. From the entry underexamined
• The US discovery of Rizal led not only to the writing of Rizalian biographies in English but also to the translation of Noli and Fili from Spanish to English.2006, Plaridel: A Journal of Philippine Communication, Media, and Society, volume 3, numbers 1–2, page 65. From the entry Rizalian
• Thus, this paper explores the perspective of “early insiders” through an historical analysis of autobiographies, biographies, and magazine articles written by and about early US newspaper reporters and editors.2003 June, Denise E. DeLorme et al., “Journalists' Hostility towards Public Relations”, in Public Relations Review, volume 23, number 2. From the entry historical

Meaning of biography

1. noun A person's life story, especially one published.
2. noun The art of writing this kind of story.
3. verb To write a biography of.

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Questions about biography in a sentence

How do you use biography in a sentence?

Biography is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.”

What is a short sentence with biography?

“Scholes, and a biography of Chopin.”

What does biography mean?

Biography means a person's life story, especially one published.