How to Use nonfiction in a Sentence

nonfiction

noun

• He reads a lot of nonfiction.
• For writers of nonfiction, there are subjects, and then there are stories.
  — Candice Millard, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2022
• Reading more—fiction and nonfiction—might be your key to becoming the trivia master.
  — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024
• But nonfiction books about the health care crisis, especially the more academic ones, have not solved the problem, or even come close to doing so.
  — David Weill, STAT, 9 Aug. 2024
• The Beach Boys on Disney + won for outstanding sound mixing for a nonfiction program.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2024
• The show’s other awards were outstanding sound editing for a non-fiction or reality program and outstanding picture editing for a nonfiction program.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2024
• Scorsese had long wanted to make the film, based on David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction book of the same name.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Best Books of 2023 Read our reviews of the year’s notable new fiction and nonfiction.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Set in 1920s Oklahoma, it is based on on David Grann’s nonfiction book of the same name.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
• The nonfiction book is the result of hundreds of interviews with boys between the ages of 13 and 18.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• Check out the complete lists of 50 notable works for fiction and the top 50 nonfiction books of last year.
  — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• Check out the complete lists of 50 notable works for fiction and the top 50 nonfiction books of last year.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• Shaheen has more projects in the works, including a nonfiction book called The Book of Shadow Work.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
• What book, fiction or nonfiction, best captures life and work in the theater?
  — New York Times, 9 May 2024
• Check out reviews for the latest in fiction and nonfiction.
  — Ellen Akins, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• First, the Holocaust Film Fund, which will provide funding for nonfiction work about the Holocaust.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a fictional thriller in a nonfiction disguise.
  — Jesse Hassenger, Chron, 14 Apr. 2023
• Two nonfiction books that drew a lot of well-deserved attention stand out.
  — Ali Shahbaz, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• The day it was released, it was named a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Awards.
  — Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
• Poniewozik: There are things that fiction can do that journalism and nonfiction can’t.
  — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• The company, based in New York City, where the couple lives, has more than 15 docs in the pipeline, including a nonfiction project about the Rust shooting.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
• In Banks’s books, whether fiction or nonfiction, the atomic unit of story is the family.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
• The real challenge in third-person nonfiction is to get in the head of your principal figure.
  — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 20 Oct. 2022
• This week’s issue plumbs the magazine’s archives to show how the lowest form of journalism can reach the heights of nonfiction prose.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2022
• Jamison’s mode of nonfiction is compassionate but lets no one off the hook, least of all herself.
  — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
• The only writings that Godwin cites by name are nonfiction.
  — The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• While most of the filming was done at a soundstage in Ascot, Bath is still rich with history, where fiction and nonfiction meet.
  — Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
• That nonfiction debut was filled with starts and stops and empty space; sometimes a page contained only a line, or a question.
  — Elisa Wouk Almino, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Her memoir about cancer and care, ‘‘The Undying,’’ won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
  — Cedar Sigo Anne Boyer, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Like many nonfiction authors, Ms. Land turned to speaking.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024