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

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