How do you use Documentary in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like picture or film, plus the exact meaning.
Documentary in a sentence
Documentary meaning
- Of, related to, or based on documents.
- Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
- Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
Synonyms of Documentary
Using Documentary
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, related to, or based on documents. | Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject. | Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
- Useful related words include: documental, moving-picture show, moving picture, picture.
- In the example corpus, documentary often appears in combinations such as: the documentary, documentary about, documentary on.
Context around Documentary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Documentary
- In this selection, "documentary" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, international, enterprise, lorentz, fund, short and association stand out and add context to how "documentary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a documentary cannot look, and a documentary on an, best documentary, documentary film and international documentary. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "documentary" sits close to words such as chiefs, loans and machines, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with documentary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A documentary cannot look me in the face and ask me why it is a documentary! (16 words)
Nominees in the Documentary Short Film and Documentary Feature Film categories will be in conversation in the David Geffen Theater. (20 words)
Tamil documentary “The Elephant Whisperers” Tuesday bagged a nomination in the Documentary Short Subject category of the 95th Academy Awards. (20 words)
Bradby said that the watershed documentary was his idea and that it took 'a great deal of persuasion' for the couple to agree to make the documentary about their personal life, as they had wanted the focus to be on their work in Africa. (44 words)
The existential dread of the movie is played out through the eyes of David Locke, Nicholson's character, whose purpose in the film is to make a documentary on Chad, though the film itself is seemingly a documentary about him, as well. (42 words)
On whether she would consider making a documentary herself, Sen says, “I have made fiction films all my life and the thought of filming a documentary intimidates me a little, even though I have toyed with one or two ideas occasionally. (41 words)
A documentary cannot look me in the face and ask me why it is a documentary! (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has granted a total of US$245,000 to 15 films through its Enterprise Documentary Fund and Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund.
A documentary cannot look me in the face and ask me why it is a documentary!
A new sports documentary that feels like a horror film: Ever since the wild success of “Free Solo,” the Oscar-winning documentary about mountain climbing without ropes, there’s been a glut of highly enjoyable extreme-sports documentaries.
A Sheffield United in-house production, the three part documentary Out Run, Out Fight, Out Play is a two-hour plus special edition legacy documentary that details the story of the 2022/23 promotion to the Premier League.
Chernov’s documentary, a first-person account of the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, won the audience prize for world cinema documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
Dunne and Rodgers play a bit with the documentary format, and the film ends up being as much a documentary about its own making.
Nominees in the Documentary Short Film and Documentary Feature Film categories will be in conversation in the David Geffen Theater.
On being interviewed in front of the logo years later: “It’s funny, in that documentary, that documentary, it’s a Ring of Honor tryout.
Tamil documentary “The Elephant Whisperers” Tuesday bagged a nomination in the Documentary Short Subject category of the 95th Academy Awards.
The broadcaster won the gong for Best Documentary at the National Television Awards for her documentary Finding Derek and has written a book entitled The Strength of Love about Derek’s ongoing battle to take back control.
Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson directed the documentary, which won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Miles Overton, documentary producer at Future Studios, said: “We’re developing a documentary about Sunny Delight, charting its rise and fall.
On the OTT front, Apple TV+ offers a captivating wildlife documentary, while Netflix features an anime, a Hollywood film about World War II, and a documentary on an Indian music icon.
On whether she would consider making a documentary herself, Sen says, “I have made fiction films all my life and the thought of filming a documentary intimidates me a little, even though I have toyed with one or two ideas occasionally.
The documentary about his life, “Navalny,” won the Academy Award for feature Documentary in 2023, and the filmmakers behind it urged that people who support Navalny’s cause carry on his fight.
The existential dread of the movie is played out through the eyes of David Locke, Nicholson's character, whose purpose in the film is to make a documentary on Chad, though the film itself is seemingly a documentary about him, as well.
There’s a great irony in a documentary on the making of The Blair Witch Project vanishing off the face of the earth, but that’s what happened to Russell Gomm’s 2015 documentary.
These students are Evan Fulmer, Xavier Penvose and Fitz Ahlers who came in third place with their documentary “,” and Eryn Fox and Nox Bradford whose documentary, “The Gender Crisis in America,” was an honorable mention.
A panel of UK-based documentary producers and directors convened virtually June 25 as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest’s digital sessions program to imagine “radical” changes to the UK documentary industry.
Bradby said that the watershed documentary was his idea and that it took 'a great deal of persuasion' for the couple to agree to make the documentary about their personal life, as they had wanted the focus to be on their work in Africa.
Phrases with documentary
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with documentary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the documentary 48×
- documentary about 20×
- documentary on 14×
- documentary the 12×
- best documentary 11×
- documentary film 11×
- documentary that 10×
- documentary which 8×
- in documentary 8×
- documentary at 6×