How to Use encyclopedia in a Sentence

encyclopedia

noun

• Szabo grew close to his grandparents, who kept a set of encyclopedias at the end of the couch near the TV.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• There are cellphones where there once were phone booths, and laptops where there was once the the encyclopedia.
  — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• Its name blends the Indonesian word for store—toko—with part of the word encyclopedia.
  — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
• His dæmon lay with her head up and her front paws stretched out ahead of her, like the picture of the Sphinx in Malcolm’s encyclopedia.
  — Philip Pullman, Slate Magazine, 26 May 2017
• DuBois died on the eve of the 1963 March on Washington, while working on an encyclopedia of Africa.
  — Lottie Joiner, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2020
• By the time of my arrival, in the summer of 1960, my father had been at work on his encyclopedia for nearly a decade.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Europe has blamed the Jews for an encyclopedia of sins.
  — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2015
• Like any encyclopedia, though, one of the first things people tend to do is point out what's not in the compilation.
  — Jevon Phillips, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• That fan site became the Almanac, which is known as, among fans, the band’s de facto encyclopedia.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• Or, if the question was straightforward enough, how to use the encyclopedia to figure out, say, how big sea urchins could get.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 June 2017
• My script was based on Queen Nymeria and this little blurb about her that was in a Westeros encyclopedia.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
• Over the past few years, Ward feels like he’s opened an encyclopedia into his psyche.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2021
• Martin is the soundtrack of the NBA in Charlotte, and pretty much its encyclopedia, too.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 27 Feb. 2018
• My point is that being an encyclopedia of music -- which those of us in the business tend to be -- can sometimes be a hindrance.
  — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 15 June 2018
• And now for the top contenders, the car salesmen — a sampling, FYI, not an encyclopedia entry.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• On Baidu’s online encyclopedia Baidu Baike, the page about Yan has been taken down.
  — Jane Li, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2022
• Michael Richardson, the bartender, is a walking encyclopedia of the movie.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Wikipedia, where all posts are written by users, has become the web's encyclopedia.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2018
• The group of sewers used an encyclopedia to put together the flag, using it for the design and to help with dimensions.
  — Fox News, 1 May 2018
• In its section on the history of the shot clock, even the NBA’s official encyclopedia fails to mention him.
  — Seerat Sohi, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• Most people are not walking around with a plant encyclopedia in their heads.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• The encyclopedia was to feature everything from All State teams to standings, polls and school records.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2017
• The Cookbook is an encyclopedia of how the world eats breakfast, and also teaches the reader how whip those same dishes up at home.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2019
• To spice up their evening mocktails, an encyclopedia of recipes might help inspire.
  — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 18 Oct. 2022
• Hugging the airy restaurant in Navy Yard are planters stocked with a little encyclopedia of herbs and greens, and a window in the back of the dining room captures hams hung for aging.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• To press the florals, lay out blooms and greenery from your bouquet on clean wax paper in a heavy book like an encyclopedia or textbook.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2024
• My art education came from the pages of a 1961 World Book encyclopedia set.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• But that argument wasn’t good enough for the nerds who control the web’s favorite encyclopedia.
  — Ellen Airhart, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2018
• The Joy of Cooking $28 Amazon Everyone should have a cookbook like this, a doorstop that is almost more encyclopedia than manual.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 4 July 2024
• Parthenogenesis is an encyclopedia waiting to be researched Dudgeon is happy to admit that Booth might be right.
  — Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024