How to Use encyclopedia in a Sentence

encyclopedia

noun
Definition of encyclopedianext
Synonyms for encyclopedianext
  • Szabo grew close to his grandparents, who kept a set of encyclopedias at the end of the couch near the TV.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • There are cellphones where there once were phone booths, and laptops where there was once the the encyclopedia.
    — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • Its name blends the Indonesian word for store—toko—with part of the word encyclopedia.
    — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • His dæmon lay with her head up and her front paws stretched out ahead of her, like the picture of the Sphinx in Malcolm’s encyclopedia.
    — Philip Pullman, Slate Magazine, 26 May 2017
  • DuBois died on the eve of the 1963 March on Washington, while working on an encyclopedia of Africa.
    — Lottie Joiner, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2020
  • By the time of my arrival, in the summer of 1960, my father had been at work on his encyclopedia for nearly a decade.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Europe has blamed the Jews for an encyclopedia of sins.
    — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2015
  • Like any encyclopedia, though, one of the first things people tend to do is point out what's not in the compilation.
    — Jevon Phillips, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • That fan site became the Almanac, which is known as, among fans, the band’s de facto encyclopedia.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • Or, if the question was straightforward enough, how to use the encyclopedia to figure out, say, how big sea urchins could get.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 June 2017
  • My script was based on Queen Nymeria and this little blurb about her that was in a Westeros encyclopedia.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
  • Over the past few years, Ward feels like he’s opened an encyclopedia into his psyche.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Martin is the soundtrack of the NBA in Charlotte, and pretty much its encyclopedia, too.
    — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 27 Feb. 2018
  • My point is that being an encyclopedia of music -- which those of us in the business tend to be -- can sometimes be a hindrance.
    — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 15 June 2018
  • And now for the top contenders, the car salesmen — a sampling, FYI, not an encyclopedia entry.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • On Baidu’s online encyclopedia Baidu Baike, the page about Yan has been taken down.
    — Jane Li, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Michael Richardson, the bartender, is a walking encyclopedia of the movie.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • Wikipedia, where all posts are written by users, has become the web's encyclopedia.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The group of sewers used an encyclopedia to put together the flag, using it for the design and to help with dimensions.
    — Fox News, 1 May 2018
  • In its section on the history of the shot clock, even the NBA’s official encyclopedia fails to mention him.
    — Seerat Sohi, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Most people are not walking around with a plant encyclopedia in their heads.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The encyclopedia was to feature everything from All State teams to standings, polls and school records.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The Cookbook is an encyclopedia of how the world eats breakfast, and also teaches the reader how whip those same dishes up at home.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2019
  • To spice up their evening mocktails, an encyclopedia of recipes might help inspire.
    — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Hugging the airy restaurant in Navy Yard are planters stocked with a little encyclopedia of herbs and greens, and a window in the back of the dining room captures hams hung for aging.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • To press the florals, lay out blooms and greenery from your bouquet on clean wax paper in a heavy book like an encyclopedia or textbook.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2024
  • My art education came from the pages of a 1961 World Book encyclopedia set.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • But that argument wasn’t good enough for the nerds who control the web’s favorite encyclopedia.
    — Ellen Airhart, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2018
  • One day, in one of his usual Friday visits to your home, Poppa brings you a surprise, an encyclopedia of baseball.
    — Bob Brody, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Pliny the Elder’s radical idea to catalog knowledge This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
    — Big Think, 24 June 2024

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