On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Memoirs. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Memoirs meaning
- plural of memoir
- An autobiography.
Using Memoirs
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of memoir | An autobiography.
- In the example corpus, memoirs often appears in combinations such as: his memoirs, memoirs of, the memoirs.
Context around Memoirs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Memoirs
- In this selection, "memoirs" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, age, personal, biography, written, sherman and begin stand out and add context to how "memoirs" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include biography memoirs there is and dogface soldiers memoirs. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "memoirs" sits close to words such as cartoons, clinched and greenville, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with memoirs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fall is peak season for celebrity memoirs. (7 words)
In 1691, an extraordinary Jewish woman named Glikl bas Leyb began writing her memoirs. (14 words)
The memoirs begin with the axing of her father in Armenian-populated Aintab in 1894. (15 words)
I’ve looked at every document, thrown away what is considered not useful again, kept those which will come handy in the writing of my memoirs, and filed those the next Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity will find useful. (43 words)
Author Julia Alverez said: “We have many coming-of-age memoirs to help us understand how to make our way in the world, but very few coming-of-old-age memoirs that bravely address the last years of life. (39 words)
In the first of her seven memoirs, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou speaks of her early life growing up in the South, including the abuse and racism she faced. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Author Julia Alverez said: “We have many coming-of-age memoirs to help us understand how to make our way in the world, but very few coming-of-old-age memoirs that bravely address the last years of life.
Biography Memoirs There is an abundance of autobiographical information on Goldoni, most of which comes from the introductions to his plays and from his Memoirs.
From the memoirs written by Agrippina the Younger, Tacitus used the memoirs to extract information regarding the family and fate of Agrippina the Elder, when Tacitus was writing The Annals.
In 1886, after the publication of Grant's memoirs, Sherman produced a "second edition, revised and corrected" of his memoirs with Appleton.
Both Clapton and Boyd published their memoirs in 2008 and spoke about their decade long marriage.
Demand from booksellers was about 20 percent higher than for Obama's presidential memoirs, it added.
Fall is peak season for celebrity memoirs.
He co-wrote his memoirs, The Billie Scott Story, and hopes to write a sequel about what he’s learned in real estate.
In 1691, an extraordinary Jewish woman named Glikl bas Leyb began writing her memoirs.
In a remarkable coincidence, these two leaders have published memoirs of their young womanhood at the same time.
In the first of her seven memoirs, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou speaks of her early life growing up in the South, including the abuse and racism she faced.
I’ve looked at every document, thrown away what is considered not useful again, kept those which will come handy in the writing of my memoirs, and filed those the next Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity will find useful.
Niasari asked her mother to write her memoirs, which took six months; that writing formed the basis of the first incarnation of Shayda’s script.
Oct. 24-26, 1944, fellow combatant Sgt. Charles Beardslee describes the action in his Dogface Soldiers Memoirs.
Richard Nixon wrote in his memoirs that he adopted the “Southern strategy” — law-and-order and cultural rhetoric similar to Wallace's — to stave off Wallace.
She has said she immersed herself in everything from personal memoirs to the Swiss government’s international Commission of Independent Experts on financial relations with the Nazis, released in 2002.
Sturgeon is a well-known reader, and literary agents and publishers are now hoping she turns her hand to writing her own memoirs.
The Canadian War Museum displays and maintains collections of military vehicles, artillery, uniforms, medals, personal memoirs and works of art.
The memoirs begin with the axing of her father in Armenian-populated Aintab in 1894.
The supernatural horror film is based on the memoirs of the controversial Catholic priest and exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth and stars Russell Crowe as the title figure.
Common combinations with memoirs
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his memoirs 52×
- memoirs of 35×
- the memoirs 19×
- memoirs and 17×
- memoirs that 13×
- memoirs in 10×
- her memoirs 10×
- memoirs by 6×
- memoirs he 5×
- memoirs to 4×