Semidocumentary is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Semidocumentary in a sentence
Semidocumentary meaning
a drama (film, book or TV) that presents a fictional story incorporating many factual details or actual events
Using Semidocumentary
- The main meaning on this page is: a drama (film, book or TV) that presents a fictional story incorporating many factual details or actual events
Context around Semidocumentary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Semidocumentary
- In this selection, "semidocumentary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, extraordinary, unusual, drama and work stand out and add context to how "semidocumentary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an extraordinary semidocumentary drama beautiful and the unusual semidocumentary work of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "semidocumentary" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with semidocumentary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
MaryAnn’s quick take… An extraordinary semidocumentary drama, beautiful and beautifully accomplished, about dignity, work, and masculinity. (17 words)
Fonda worked with Alfred Hitchcock in 1956, playing a man falsely accused of robbery in The Wrong Man ; the unusual semidocumentary work of Hitchcock's was based on an actual incident and partly filmed on location. (36 words)
Fonda worked with Alfred Hitchcock in 1956, playing a man falsely accused of robbery in The Wrong Man ; the unusual semidocumentary work of Hitchcock's was based on an actual incident and partly filmed on location. (36 words)
MaryAnn’s quick take… An extraordinary semidocumentary drama, beautiful and beautifully accomplished, about dignity, work, and masculinity. (17 words)
Example sentences (2)
MaryAnn’s quick take… An extraordinary semidocumentary drama, beautiful and beautifully accomplished, about dignity, work, and masculinity.
Fonda worked with Alfred Hitchcock in 1956, playing a man falsely accused of robbery in The Wrong Man ; the unusual semidocumentary work of Hitchcock's was based on an actual incident and partly filmed on location.