How to Use nonfiction in a Sentence

nonfiction

noun
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  • He reads a lot of nonfiction.
  • The series is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Justin Fenton.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 June 2022
  • Scorsese had long wanted to make the film, based on David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction book of the same name.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The Best Books of 2023 Read our reviews of the year’s notable new fiction and nonfiction.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Set in 1920s Oklahoma, it is based on on David Grann’s nonfiction book of the same name.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The nonfiction book is the result of hundreds of interviews with boys between the ages of 13 and 18.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Check out the complete lists of 50 notable works for fiction and the top 50 nonfiction books of last year.
    — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • Check out the complete lists of 50 notable works for fiction and the top 50 nonfiction books of last year.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Shaheen has more projects in the works, including a nonfiction book called The Book of Shadow Work.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • What book, fiction or nonfiction, best captures life and work in the theater?
    — New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • Check out reviews for the latest in fiction and nonfiction.
    — Ellen Akins, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • First, the Holocaust Film Fund, which will provide funding for nonfiction work about the Holocaust.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a fictional thriller in a nonfiction disguise.
    — Jesse Hassenger, Chron, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In the past, including at the end of 2020, Gates has tended to suggest mostly nonfiction works.
    — Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Two nonfiction books that drew a lot of well-deserved attention stand out.
    — Ali Shahbaz, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The day it was released, it was named a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Awards.
    — Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
  • For writers of nonfiction, there are subjects, and then there are stories.
    — Candice Millard, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Poniewozik: There are things that fiction can do that journalism and nonfiction can’t.
    — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The company, based in New York City, where the couple lives, has more than 15 docs in the pipeline, including a nonfiction project about the Rust shooting.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In Banks’s books, whether fiction or nonfiction, the atomic unit of story is the family.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The real challenge in third-person nonfiction is to get in the head of your principal figure.
    — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction, for children and adults, Fleischman knew how to spin a tale.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 27 Mar. 2022
  • In his tweet Toobin, the author of a number of bestselling books, teased his next nonfiction work about the Oklahoma City bombing, which is due out in 2023.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This week’s issue plumbs the magazine’s archives to show how the lowest form of journalism can reach the heights of nonfiction prose.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Jamison’s mode of nonfiction is compassionate but lets no one off the hook, least of all herself.
    — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The only writings that Godwin cites by name are nonfiction.
    — The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • While most of the filming was done at a soundstage in Ascot, Bath is still rich with history, where fiction and nonfiction meet.
    — Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
  • That nonfiction debut was filled with starts and stops and empty space; sometimes a page contained only a line, or a question.
    — Elisa Wouk Almino, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Scribe users read more nonfiction than normal Kindle owners; a full 60 percent of Scribe buyers use the device at work.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 16 Oct. 2024
  • But their story also offers a glimpse into the bind that some nonfiction filmmakers are facing in a cost-cutting, risk-averse market.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024

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