How to Use biography in a Sentence

biography

noun

• In the biography, the second mention of the trunks is in 1989.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2023
• Take only the basketball chatter, and Fader has a tidy biography on her hands.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 11 Oct. 2024
• Opens the World campaign, along with hundreds of copies of Theoharis’ biography of Parks.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Feb. 2023
• Or so claimed a monk who knew Hildegard in her final years; the task of separating fact from myth in her biography is arduous.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Voters can learn when judges were appointed, read their judicial performance reports and, for some judges, review short biographies.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
• Williams was a native of Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, per her biography.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
• Of course, the Wife of Bath is not a person but a fictional creation, so this biography is a history of a fictional character.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Much of the book reads like the Yoko chapter in a biography of John.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2022
• John Adams, like a door-stopping biography, is one of the best of the form.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 17 May 2022
• The biography is just one of a slew of projects about Taylor's life that the estate has in the works.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• Go to a used bookstore and check the biography shelves.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 30 July 2021
• The story lines, too, blend the texture of true biography with the conceit of the show.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• In the past decade, Ben-Yosef and his team have rewritten the site’s biography.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
• The names, faces and short biographies of the dead scrolled across television screens.
  — Author: Kathleen Parker, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Oct. 2017
• Dean devotes the first half of his book to a biography of Stuck.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2021
• Such moments are what the very best biographies of artists strive for.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
• One of them is on the jacket of Kai Bird’s new Carter biography.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2021
• The books were his way of making the silence speak—hence the title of this biography.
  — Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• Since those times, the craft of biography has been transformed.
  — Sue Roe, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2020
• Yet at the heart of the story, as of Mary’s biography, were primeval sadnesses and fears.
  — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
• Kahn entreats the reader on the first page of her biography.
  — Vogue, 6 Nov. 2019
• The new Swift biography is also available for the same price on Walmart.com.
  — Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
• The biographies of Prince William, 41, and Princess Kate, 42, have each been topped with photos taken within the last year.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
• That prompted me to go find a good biography of Serra, and there weren’t any.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Aug. 2017
• Rock and jazz biographies are packed with tales of on-the-road licentiousness.
  — Philip Clark, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2023
• But in the four decades after his death in 1983, the big biography, the one that would take on the whole subject—the life, the death, the art, the mother—never appeared.
  — Joan Acocella, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
• This is less a biography than the anatomy of an empire.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• The title comes from short biographies Nichols and May wrote for the back of one of their comedy albums.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 27 May 2024
• In the ’90s, there were three major biographies written.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2019
• Children were forced to pose with the green-and-red flag or recite Lukashenko’s biography.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024