Explore Autobiography through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like biography or life. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Autobiography in a sentence
Autobiography meaning
- A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
- Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.
Using Autobiography
- The main meaning on this page is: A self-written biography; the story of one's own life. | Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.
- Useful related words include: biography, life, life story, life history.
- In the example corpus, autobiography often appears in combinations such as: his autobiography, her autobiography, an autobiography.
Context around Autobiography
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Autobiography
- In this selection, "autobiography" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hughes, official, candid, undiluted, hughes and london stand out and add context to how "autobiography" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1991 his autobiography life as and an autobiography undiluted hocus. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "autobiography" sits close to words such as consultants, inmate and oversees, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with autobiography
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An autobiography — Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner — was published posthumously. (13 words)
Autobiography Hughes' autobiography was published in May 2011 by British specialist limited edition publishers Foruli. (15 words)
King Hussein in his autobiography, Uneasy Lies the Headadmits to his alignment with the West. (15 words)
Bringing a typewriter to sets, he kept on churning stories and has over half-a-dozen books, apart from his candid autobiography, to his credit in both Punjabi and Hindi — in fact, some of the former are on the syllabus in Punjab universities. (43 words)
His brief autobiography “The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression,” translated from Portuguese by Eric M. B. Becker, is suffused by the same muted yearning that drove its author to drop candy from his balcony decades ago. (43 words)
In the prologue to the 2020 autobiography, Capt Sir Tom wrote: "Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
An autobiography — Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner — was published posthumously.
Autobiography Hughes' autobiography was published in May 2011 by British specialist limited edition publishers Foruli.
George Bull, The Autobiography, London 1966 p. 15. These criteria for autobiography generally persisted until recent times, and most serious autobiographies of the next three hundred years conformed to them.
He was survived by a son, Tristan Lord Gwynne Sutch, born in 1975 to American model Thann Rendessy. citation In 1991, his autobiography, Life as Sutch: The Official Autobiography of a Raving Loony (written with Peter Chippindale ), was published.
After the conflict, the Falkland Islands expressed their appreciation with a huge banner outside Government House saying “God bless you Harold” (p 346, Rex Hunt’s Autobiography “My Falkland Days”.
A Million Miles Away, based on Hernández's autobiography, is directed by Alejandra Márquez Abella.
Back in the day, in his autobiography, Rishi mentioned meeting Javed Akhtar at a bar in Bengaluru after Bobby was a hit in Mumbai and revealed the details about his interaction with the lyricist who was drunk ‘to his gills’.
Besides his passion for travelling, he had presented cerebral papers at national and international seminars and has written several books, including his autobiography and the highly insightful History of Dutse.
Bricktop published her autobiography in 1984 and months later died in her New York City bed with an amazing legacy.
Bringing a typewriter to sets, he kept on churning stories and has over half-a-dozen books, apart from his candid autobiography, to his credit in both Punjabi and Hindi — in fact, some of the former are on the syllabus in Punjab universities.
Elsewhere, Holly has had success with autobiography Not Quite A Geordie, appeared on the covers of FHM and Nuts in the past, and had a popular fashion line for Lasula.
He even dedicates a whole section of his autobiography to his work in front of the camera.
He was also a respected character actor with many stage and screen credits, an author of novels and autobiography, and an accomplished landscape painter.
His brief autobiography “The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression,” translated from Portuguese by Eric M. B. Becker, is suffused by the same muted yearning that drove its author to drop candy from his balcony decades ago.
In addition, his 2017 autobiography “Change of Season” released by St. Martin’s Press, became an Amazon best seller.
In his autobiography, Harrison noted that the lyrics were the result of “the avalanche of thoughts that are so hard to write down or say or transmit” while taking the drug.
In his autobiography Mind Master, Anand lauds Gajewski’s “ability to see things” that he himself had missed.
In the prologue to the 2020 autobiography, Capt Sir Tom wrote: "Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.
King Hussein in his autobiography, Uneasy Lies the Headadmits to his alignment with the West.
Long after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Robert Paulson published his autobiography.
Common combinations with autobiography
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his autobiography 69×
- her autobiography 21×
- an autobiography 18×
- autobiography of 18×
- the autobiography 17×
- autobiography and 8×
- autobiography the 8×
- autobiography in 7×
- new autobiography 6×
- autobiography was 5×