How to Use autobiography in a Sentence

autobiography

noun
  • I read her autobiography last year.
  • Those scuffs on a court are an autobiography of the match just played.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • Pence signed a two-book deal, of which his autobiography is the first.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
  • He is scheduled to sign copies of his autobiography and posters, which will be for sale.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The film is an autobiography of loss; the film is a history of now.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The film is an autobiography of loss; the film is a history of now.
    — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The details of her life are eye-popping, and can be found in her autobiography.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Source Code is out now and is the first of three autobiographies Gates plans to publish.
    — Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PCMAG, 4 Feb. 2025
  • For years the autobiography set the tone for any view of Little.
    — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Liz was very intrigued by this part of my autobiography where my mother goes to college with me.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The two had been in touch about Dane's autobiography.
    — Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Cibele One of my favorite trends in the past decade of games has been a move toward autobiography.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Ask your kid to write an autobiography of themselves.
    — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The singer even gave him the first pages of his unfinished autobiography.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • There is certainly a lack of shame in the living autobiographies.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
  • The autobiography will detail her life’s ups and downs — including her years in a cult.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • So are the director and her sister, but this is not an autobiography.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 31 Jan. 2026
  • There's been talking of using a photo of his crack-head self on the cover of his autobiography.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Why did Malcolm write an autobiography when the form vexed and repelled her?
    — Katie Roiphe, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The autobiography comes on the heels of his new album, Need You.
    — Essence, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The team lost its first game 50-0, Perez wrote in his new autobiography.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • With the use of the word autobiography, Amy quickly looked up asking the meaning of the word.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
  • This book is an autobiography by a woman named Alua Arthur.
    — Wunmi Mosaku, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • But Hough said the show isn’t just the siblings’ autobiography in motion.
    — L. Kent Wolgamott, sacbee.com, 8 June 2017
  • There is autobiography here — a self-portrait of her cycling around Venice circles a vase — as well as satire.
    — Christian House, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Folts said the documents fill in the vague details of Truth's son in her autobiography.
    — Giselle Rhoden, CNN, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Zha Xi slides one of Namu’s nine autobiographies across the table.
    — Jason Motlagh, Marie Claire, 18 Jan. 2018
  • In exchange, guests help for a few hours a day around the bookshop and write a one-page autobiography to add to the shop's collection of past guests.
    — Talia Avakian, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
  • Snow first picked up the autobiography after her dog died, then again when her father's Alzheimer's had gotten worse.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Bob Odenkirk had written about it in his autobiography and talked about it on a show as the funniest sketch that never aired.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023

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