AUTOBIOGRAPHY in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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autobiography
 n.  biography or story written by oneself
Classic Sentence:
1  This, however, afforded no clue until she broke into the hut, and found one of your books, an autobiography of the actress Judith, with your name, Constance Stewart Reid, on the front page.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  Because he so far forgot himself as to tell you a true piece of autobiography upon the occasion when he first met you, and I dare say he has many a time regretted it since.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
3  But this is not to be a regular autobiography.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
5  I will observe, in parenthesis, that Heine says that a true autobiography is almost an impossibility, and that man is bound to lie about himself.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
Example Sentence:
1  He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
2  I shall not indulge in autobiography by speaking of my own country.
3  This book clearly falls into the category of fictionalised autobiography.