How to Use nonfiction in a Sentence

nonfiction

noun
  • He reads a lot of nonfiction.
  • But movies—at least nonfiction films—can.
    — Susan Sontag, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Both his novels and his nonfiction move me.
    — Dean Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Check out their picks for fiction and nonfiction.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 June 2026
  • Capote called the book a nonfiction novel.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
  • His nonfiction book is called Black Moses.
    — Memoir Nation september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With three works of nonfiction under his belt, Laskin made that jump.
    — Malcom Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Bess started to leave, got as far as the shelf of nonfiction bestsellers and turned back.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The book is a nonfiction novel that avoids Manichaeism.
    — Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • Start the day by reading a novel or a nonfiction book that has nothing to do with your job.
    — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Melting Point is her first nonfiction book.
    — A Dialogue, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Suzanne Berne is the author of five novels and a book of nonfiction.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • The film’s failures of form fall on both sides of the fiction and nonfiction divide.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • My book is a short work of nonfiction about the choices we are forced to make when history strikes us.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The results of Caro’s close study have fed into the nonfiction books that made his name.
    — Chris Heath, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • What book, fiction or nonfiction, best captures life and work in the theater?
    — New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • Through the fall, each writer would create two pieces of prose—fiction or nonfiction.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The shop hosts horror book clubs, too, in both fiction and nonfiction genres.
    — Jennifer Billock, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Robyn Ryle is a writer of fiction and nonfiction.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The very core of the movie—the song that Y is to set—likewise bears the crucial stamp of nonfiction.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Books about race -- both fiction and nonfiction -- have been topping the bestseller lists.
    — Brandon Griggs, CNN, 25 June 2020
  • One of the pleasures of a good book, even a nonfiction one, is the illusion of closure.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • Now, the entire saga is set to be explored in a new nonfiction work that seeks to uncover the facts.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 22 July 2025
  • That sense of kinship leads to a porousness between fiction and nonfiction in his films.
    — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The series is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Justin Fenton.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 June 2022
  • But the two men have very different ideas of what a nonfiction film about Reggie should look like.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
  • An avid reader of fiction and nonfiction, David Berg flew through books.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2020
  • Here are three books, fiction and nonfiction, that approach the idea in different ways.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Partner with a friend or family member and set a goal to read a full-length novel or nonfiction book.
    — Jt Torres, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026
  • This must be the question nonfiction writers as asked most frequently, right?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026

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