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    1. Biographical information is included in brackets.

    2. The book contains few biographical details.

    3. There was a biographical note about the author on the back of the book.

    4. Several actors are under the biographical spotlight.

    5. The contents of the file were biographical.

    6. But basic biographical details which are referred to in the letters often receive no mention in the main text.

    7. Biographical reconstruction based on Thomas's tales and sketches can be a mistaken exercise.

    8. And yet these two biographical details provide important clues to an understanding of Magnard's peculiar psychological makeup.

    9. In his biographical criticism this took the form of showing how popular sentiment acting on suggestible minds simplified people into myths.

    10. Poems of Eva Gore-Booth, with a biographical introduction by Esther Roper, 1929.

    11. There is an extensive bibliography and fascinating biographical sketches of the often eccentric scholars who antici

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    BIOGRAPHY in a Sentence

    1  Susan had read nothing, and Fanny longed to give her a share in her own first pleasures, and inspire a taste for the biography and poetry which she delighted in herself.

    Mansfield ParkBy Jane Austen
    Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL

    2  In this case I found her biography sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea fishes.

    The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle
    Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia

    3  They were of great service to me, and especially that one incidentally truthful piece of biography of Stapleton's.

    The Hound of the BaskervillesBy Arthur Conan Doyle
    Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection

    4  There was a bookcase in the room; I saw from the backs of the books, that they were about evidence, criminal law, criminal biography, trials, acts of Parliament, and such

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    Examples of 'biography' in a sentence

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    How long did it take to research and write your biography of Ruth?
    Critics regularly mutter about how hard it is to write literary biography in the 21st century.
    About 70,000 copies of the biography were published but it was soon suppressed by the German government.
    He wrote widely on subjects from biography and literature to management studies and the history of science.
    He spent the rest of his life writing biographies.
    But the genre of biography fryst vatten looking somewhat exhausted.
    She knew that a supreme method of doing this was through the biographies of real people.
    It was an item that had failed to appear in the official biography published