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Example sentences for "biographical"

Lexicographically close words:
biogenetic; biograph; biographer; biographers; biographic; biographies; biographique; biography; biologic; biological
  1. Illustrated by a Series of Measured Drawings of the chief buildings designed by him, together with Descriptive Notes and a Biographical Sketch, and a complete list of his Authentic Works.

  2. A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution.

  3. Johnson says--"I have read every word of Granger's Biographical History.

  4. With Portrait of the Author, and Biographical Introduction by HENRY JAMES.

  5. Johnson went on to speak of the difficulty of getting biographical information.

  6. The loss is little to be regretted, since the biographical part of earlier memoirs must have been scanty, and the criticism inappreciative.

  7. Though necessarily following the lines of Juvenal's poem, and conforming to the conventional fashion of the time, both in sentiment and versification, the poem has a biographical significance.

  8. Many of them were the residences of people whom Rosy had met for the first time during the past winter, and their interest was therefore biographical as well as topographical.

  9. Forster, his Historical and Biographical Essays quoted, i.

  10. The accounts of the Sringeri, Kudali and Cumbaconum Mathams, and the traditions current in the Bombay Presidency, as shown in the biographical sketches published at Bombay, place Sankara in some century before the Christian era.

  11. Short biographical sketches of about forty members of the Great Sanhedrin who tried Jesus have been given under Appendix I at the end of this work.

  12. As a specimen of the accurate way in which Biographical Dictionaries are made up, the Enquirer refers to Dr.

  13. Yet another interesting side of the Pickwick story is its almost biographical character.

  14. I must confess all Pickwickians would like to know biographical details, as one might call them, about the personages engaged in the trial.

  15. The case of Sir Samuel Morland is a valuable precedent, on account of his station in society, and the auto-biographical character of the narrative.

  16. It is stated, in the Biographical History of England, ii.

  17. Newly revised, with a Biographical Preface by the Rev.

  18. The biographical introduction is excellent, full of information, singularly neat and readable and modest--indeed too modest in its comments.

  19. I am tempted to accept as his and to attach to it importance, as of biographical interest.

  20. I, Biographical Memoir; Grosart, Sir John Beaumont's Poems, and the sources as indicated.

  21. The Reader will not find, as he has a Right to expect, this Name in the common Biographical Works.

  22. I need only refer to Allen's Biographical Dictionary and the Hist.

  23. Alexander Ross, a Scotchman, a very voluminous Author, though a Prelate and possessed of much and varied Learning, is meagrely noticed in Biographical Works.

  24. In these biographical sketches it cannot be expected that a history of all Mr. West's numerous works should be related.

  25. But to return to the biographical narrative.

  26. Yet the leader of the Pilgrims has passages of grave sweetness and charm, and his sketch of his associate, Elder Brewster, will bear comparison with the best English biographical writing of that century.

  27. While admirable biographical and critical studies appear from time to time, and here and there a whimsical or trenchant discursive essay like those of Miss Repplier or Dr.

  28. Ostensibly the works before us are critical and biographical monographs designed to become text-books for students of English literature; they may be more correctly described as complete epitomes of the art of puffery.

  29. His critical remarks and biographical notes are truly delightful.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biographical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chronological; historical; legendary; traditional


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    biographical note; biographical notice; biographical sketch; biographical sketches