How to Use autobiographical in a Sentence

autobiographical

adjective

• The film is based on an autobiographical essay by Dai Igarashi.
  — Sara Merican, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
• The brain regions involved in autobiographical memory and ideas about the self are part of the DMN.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• But the video doesn't seem to imply the song is autobiographical, instead placing the track in a world of fantasy.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 June 2024
• Fans know the 43-year-old actor for his work on Outlander and his autobiographical writing in his books.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2023
• His wife, Carol Tyler, a comics artist known for her own autobiographical stories, said the cause was colon cancer.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
• Some artists might not to have an autobiographical flashback to when times were good on an album after a divorce or breakup.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 June 2023
• More clearly autobiographical than much of the album, Swift apologizes to her lover for the stress that comes with dating one of the world’s most famous women.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• Apart from this brief but rousing update, the autobiographical show was very much in the spirit of its original run.
  — Dan Morrissey, EW.com, 27 June 2021
• The film focuses on Shakira, 16, a young prostitute who lives for the love of books and starts writing her first novel: an autobiographical take on her vision of the world.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
• Few of the entries are just pure music appreciation, and a lot of the chapters have a lot of autobiographical detail about how these songs touched you.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• But some of the Mayor’s autobiographical claims have a strange air of recklessness.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• But to be honest with you, before that, the singles hadn’t been autobiographical.
  — Evan Sawdey, SPIN, 13 Sep. 2024
• This is the musical version of Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama about New York gangsters in the 1960s.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• Such bookstores as survive groan with the weight of so many autobiographical food books, and a recipe for cassoulet is likely to be more confessional in tone than a love poem.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
• The comic book instead uses Griner’s harrowing time there to bookend the story, the rest of which is autobiographical.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
• But the principal drive of the show is autobiographical.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• Ever wanted to read a detailed, autobiographical account of how a star such as Barbra Streisand is born?
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2023
• But the movie, directed by Sam Mendes, is also a labor of love and partly autobiographical.
  — Wired, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• The autobiographical play, which had its world premiere at the Gogue Performing Arts Center.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 12 Feb. 2023
• The revival and the couple’s experience putting it on is the basis of McKendry’s autobiographical book.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2021
• Duncan said the artistry of hip-hop is based on Black life but that is not necessarily autobiographical and is calling on the Georgia prosecutor to withdraw the use of lyrics in her case against Young Thug.
  — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2023
• The Netflix show was adapted from Gadd's autobiographical one-man show.
  — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024
• The birth date Americans observe today was chosen based on his autobiographical writings, which revealed that he was told his birth month was February and the year was 1818.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
• But most people tend to be the heroes of autobiographical stories.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2022
• Here, the autobiographical touches on the mythic, specifically on the myth of Prometheus, whose theft of fire — a curse as well as a blessing bestowed on a bumbling, desperate species — is a primal metaphor for reading.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Ellsberg summed up his life and work in an autobiographical statement.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2023
• The decision appears to come in the wake of a recent report in The New Yorker in which some of the supposedly autobiographical stories that Minhaj has used in his routines were found to be embellished.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• Was doing the autobiographical audiobook a few years ago the thing that was a gateway drug into narrating something that’s not about yourself?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
• East Goes West, an autobiographical memoir first published in 1937, which was rereleased yet again by Penguin Classics last year.
  — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
• The music, recorded when O’Connor was pregnant with her first child, was often grating, and the lyrics were frequently if opaquely autobiographical.
  — Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024