How to Use bibliography in a Sentence

bibliography

noun
  • The book includes a lengthy bibliography.
  • The instructor provided the students with an excellent bibliography on local history.
  • In fact, Steinbeck’s bibliography is kind of perfect for the feel-bad vibe that has set in this year.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 May 2026
  • There is also a list of online nursery sites and a bibliography.
    — Sally Peterson, oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2019
  • This forum doesn’t provide space for a citation and bibliography page with links to videos that prove my point.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • Includes a note about the history of the black West and a bibliography.
    — Yana Kunichoff, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2023
  • The soon-to-be president-elect emailed Meacham a bibliography of some two dozen titles.
    — Susannah Jacob, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Bank’s modest bibliography left a large footprint on best sellers lists at the turn of the century.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
  • This, in turns incentivizes researchers to use (and abuse) their bibliographies as a way of advancing their careers.
    — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 11 June 2017
  • The site also contains search tools as well as a predictably gigantic source bibliography.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Indeed, Williamson boasts a large, best-selling bibliography — and yes, many of her books skew on the more, ahem, peculiar side.
    — Caroline Tew, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • But Reid’s advice, like her bibliography of grief-counseling books, is wise and useful.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Record of the first bibliography can be traced back to the Ancient Library of Alexandria.
    — Ian Vorster, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
  • Historical biography and the civil rights bibliography take most of my time these days.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The trouble is, few of these anecdotes are attributed or footnoted, leaving it to the reader to guess at the sourcing from the skimpy bibliography.
    — Peter Biskind, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2020
  • Ultimately, that messiness strikes me as being at the core of much of Nicholas Mosley’s bibliography.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Lin provides bibliographies of Chinese folk tale collections and writes thoughtful author’s notes about her heritage and her choice to use these stories in new ways.
    — Emily Jenkins, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
  • In addition to wonderful facts and stories about the people and places in the county, there is a 20-page index and a five-page bibliography.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Its related online archive aims to reinvent the nature of bibliography.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • When brought together, the installation becomes a life-sized view of this bibliography in the real — and not hosted in virtual.
    — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2020
  • His second wife, Leslie Getz, a publisher of dance bibliographies, died in January.
    — Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Like Tolstoy, John Steinbeck’s bibliography is chockablock with classics worth a read.
    — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025
  • That column led to an assignment from the Handbook of Texas Online for a more detailed profile and a bibliography.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2024
  • Its under-wraps plot will be original, but the story, tone, and characters will pull heavily from King's entire bibliography.
    — Tom Philip, GQ, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Sears compiled an extensive bibliography on the marine life that contributed to bottom fouling, the kind of report that could save the government millions.
    — Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • The subject cards contained descriptions of the item in addition to the bibliographies, often requiring multiple cards.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2016
  • These works, which have never been reprinted or translated, have since been excised from the Kundera corpus, and none of them appear in his official bibliography.
    — Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Entries are limited to 10 single-space pages, not including figures or the bibliography.
    — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 17 Dec. 2019
  • And Marketplace of the Gods serves as a decent precis of the literature, and its bibliography is well worth perusing.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2010
  • Hilton Als, a staff writer who has written about Baldwin many times, joined us to share a few essential entries from Baldwin’s bibliography.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025

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