How do you use Nonfiction in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like prose, plus the exact meaning.
Nonfiction meaning
Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.
Synonyms of Nonfiction
Using Nonfiction
- The main meaning on this page is: Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.
- Useful related words include: nonfictional prose, prose.
- In the example corpus, nonfiction often appears in combinations such as: and nonfiction, nonfiction book, of nonfiction.
Context around Nonfiction
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nonfiction
- In this selection, "nonfiction" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, creative, selling, scathing, book, projects and originally stand out and add context to how "nonfiction" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include fastest selling nonfiction book in and a fine nonfiction filmmaking debut. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nonfiction" sits close to words such as airship, anal and andrei, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nonfiction
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Books examining race, oppression and violence dominate the nonfiction shortlist. (10 words)
Brad is pursuing his MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing at Bay Path University. (13 words)
Spare was the fastest-selling nonfiction book in the UK since records began. (13 words)
Best novel I’ve recently read, and the best work of nonfiction: I’m a few years late on both of these, but I adored by Emily St. John Mandel—a novel about wealth and talent and escape that I found so spellbinding, I devoured it in a weekend. (49 words)
On Tuesday, Lily Brooks-Dalton's “The Light Pirate” was the runner-up for the Dayton fiction prize, and Adam Hochschild's World War I-era history “The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis” was runner-up for nonfiction. (43 words)
Beattie’s nonfiction (originally published in Life, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The American Scholar21st Editions: The Journal of Contemporary Photography, among others) is a new way to enjoy one of the great writers of her generation. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A group of industry creatives noted that the emotional connection viewers have with many sports and personalities is key to the success of scripted and nonfiction projects.
Beattie’s nonfiction (originally published in Life, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The American Scholar21st Editions: The Journal of Contemporary Photography, among others) is a new way to enjoy one of the great writers of her generation.
Best novel I’ve recently read, and the best work of nonfiction: I’m a few years late on both of these, but I adored by Emily St. John Mandel—a novel about wealth and talent and escape that I found so spellbinding, I devoured it in a weekend.
Books examining race, oppression and violence dominate the nonfiction shortlist.
Brad is pursuing his MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing at Bay Path University.
During a Industry talk, the producer spoke about a wide variety of topics, including his latest documentary, “King Coal,” what he’s looking for in a docu, and nonfiction’s current distribution landscape.
Guinness World Records had just certified his memoir as the fastest-selling nonfiction book in the history of the world.
Her scathing nonfiction account of U.S. policies had limited reach, so she wrote “,” an interracial romance set in Southern California designed to turn popular sympathies to Native Americans’ plight.
High and solid praise indeed, when you consider that Wilkerson won the National Book Critics Circle Awards nonfiction award in 2011 for her previous best seller The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.
Mr. Axe is a staff writer at Forbes and a nonfiction author, graphic novelist and filmmaker.
Now the series has been nominated for a Hollywood Critics Award in the Best Streaming Nonfiction category.
On Tuesday, Lily Brooks-Dalton's “The Light Pirate” was the runner-up for the Dayton fiction prize, and Adam Hochschild's World War I-era history “The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis” was runner-up for nonfiction.
She dreams of becoming an editor of children’s books but has been frustratingly stuck in the nonfiction division for years without a promotion in sight.
Spare was the fastest-selling nonfiction book in the UK since records began.
The 10 best books of the year, fiction and nonfiction, selected by Washington Post Book World editors and critics.
The Colorado Authors League (CAL) recently selected Wild Time & True Tales from the High Plains as Colorado’s best General Nonfiction book for 2023.
The ten-parter, co-created by Shujaat Saudagar and Rensil D’Silva, was inspired by S. Hussain Zaidi’s nonfiction book Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia.
The titles include They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, which won the Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults award from the Young Adult Library Services Association in 2011.
They are an original cast member of Death2Divinity, and they are currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction at The New School.
To call the film a debunking or a corrective would ascribe to it a level of knowledge that neither Bill Genovese nor director James Solomon, a screenwriter making a fine nonfiction filmmaking debut, claims to possess.
Common combinations with nonfiction
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and nonfiction 26×
- nonfiction book 18×
- of nonfiction 15×
- creative nonfiction 9×
- for nonfiction 8×
- nonfiction books 8×
- the nonfiction 6×
- nonfiction and 6×
- in nonfiction 4×
- nonfiction for 4×