How to Use documentary in a Sentence

documentary

1 of 2 adjective

• You must present documentary proof of your residence.
• It's read by a full cast and captures the documentary style of the novel.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 3 Mar. 2023
• He was committed to the mission of documentary work: to make meaning from the events of our times.
  — Victor Blue, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• Search had been a central figure in the documentary scene in Britain and beyond for years.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• With the hours, the time constraints, having the documentary crew there, everyone had to do double the work.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 July 2023
• Since the mid-aughts, there have been documentary films, books and multiple CD and vinyl record reissues of the group’s music.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• In the final round the documentary opt-in chapter votes to determine the winning film.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
• In the midst of a golden age for documentary films, there is no shortage of docs worthy of being seen and discussed.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
• While the exact amount of the fund was not disclosed, Noah will finance and produce four global documentary projects through it, over the next 18 months.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
• Powers said the play is not a documentary-style chronicle of events.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• Read full article Search had been a central figure in the documentary scene in Britain and beyond for years.
  — Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• The video is the latest documentary evidence to raise questions over the conduct of Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• Later in the show, Kimmel returned to the topic before the award for best documentary feature was given out.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2023
• The last New England shark killing tournaments ended a few years ago after the release of the documentary Fin, which tracked humans killing sharks.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• Some of the most fun parts of unveiling the film so far has been having kids in the audience who have been very engaged, which is rare to have as a documentary filmmaker.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• The documentary quality of the opening sequence, in which Gopnik plays himself, gives way to a churning fever dream.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
• Newly cut from the original analog tapes and packaged in a 2-LP format, the albums feature highlights from the concert and the documentary film about the event.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2023
• The festival includes a documentary film screening, a cabaret-style show and performances of Williams’ work.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• The Texas Killing Fields, a new documentary series now streaming, attempts to shine a brighter light on the murder cases tied to the region—and who might be responsible.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
• Amazon, sources say, also froze documentary rights for the story.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2023
• The shots run long, long enough to savor the documentary essence of the automotive life—the pleasure of motion, the allure of city lights, the drama of possibilities, the lure of escape.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• The first three episodes of their first documentary series — an intimate look at their personal lives — was released this week.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2022
• The release of the documentary film that highlights moments from her Renaissance tour, both onstage and backstage.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Last August, as #BamaRush went viral on social media for the second year in a row, many claimed that some of the potential sorors were filming for a documentary crew.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 4 May 2023
• In 1998, Search was one of the founders of Shooting People, a networking organization for people in the documentary world.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• The documentary branch determines the former, while the latter allows members to opt in and vote for the shortlist and eventual nominees.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Bellos and Montagu tell the story of a documentary filmmaker who shot a scene in which a group of workers were sitting around playing a board game with a television set on in the background.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Wayne Lawrence is a documentary photographer and visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
  — Tamara Audi, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• In other words, there are still weighty issues to be decided on the basis of the testimony and documentary evidence that both sides present.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• In the meantime, the Pouliots are working on a documentary film that will tell the Hannah Duston story with more context, humanizing all involved.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023

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documentary

2 of 2 noun

• We watched a documentary on the early history of jazz.
• The life, death, and rebirth of Pepe was explored in the documentary Feels Good Man.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 2 Feb. 2024
• The documentary is pure and simple the history of the party.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2024
• The 60-minute documentary starts and ends in Rhode Island, and brings viewers to various parts of the country on stops along the tour.
  — Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• On the other hand, a version of the shredder appears to function in a documentary from 2015.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• As in so many crisp documentaries, the editor is the unsung hero here.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2024
• There are so many documentaries, works, and books on Tupac.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 18 Aug. 2023
• Below, the 13 best Netflix true-crime documentaries to catch up on now.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• Through archival footage and expert analysis, the documentary sheds light on the murky deals behind the Olympic facade.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
• The film received the 2013 Academy Award for best documentary feature, but Rodriguez was not awake at the time.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
• Nicole Kidman didn’t come to me to make a documentary about Hong Kong politics.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024
• Yet the decision to return wasn’t so clear-cut, the documentary reveals.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
• The documentary ends with a sense of restrained hope, something Browns fans are familiar with.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
• The performance resulted in a live album, a book and a documentary film.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• The on-the-spot approach to creating comedy brings it closer to the raw timbre of documentary.
  — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• In another post, the actress spoke in a video about the experience of watching the documentary.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024
• The Beckham documentary about David and Victoria Beckham has taken the world by storm.
  — Alex Light, Glamour, 26 Oct. 2023
• There’s lots to like and learn in this documentary about Yogi Berra, which takes us beyond the caricatures and Yogi-isms and into the heart of a sports legend.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 oral history Meet Me in the Bathroom, made into a documentary last year, thinks so.
  — Karan Mahajan, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• Those are among the story lines in the first trailer for the upcoming Netflix four-part documentary series, Beckham.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2023
• There are two other deaths that documentaries and true-crime podcasts have linked to the Murdaugh family.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The documentary, which premiered at South by Southwest this month, has high-profile backers.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• It was then revealed by Satriani that ZZ was filming a documentary about the G3 tour, and a live album was in the works featuring the evening’s performances.
  — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The documentary spans about a year and chronicles Dion’s battle with Stiff Person Syndrome.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
• This breadth of support is a unicorn for the independent documentary space.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
• While the documentary is potent and tender, the solo show assumes a more lighthearted tone, spending more time on Shields’s recent past and present.
  — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2023
• The documentary is a sublime take on the 79-year-old artist’s comeback journey working on a passion gospel project in tandem with the ebbs and flows of her historical career.
  — Cam Zhang, Billboard, 12 June 2023
• This is perhaps the largest topic entirely omitted in the documentary.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
• Tiger hunts, processions, battles, landscapes, and day-in, day-out doings, mostly in panoramic paintings, have the feel and look of documentaries.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• The appetite for cult content has grown steadily in recent years, with more and more creepy offerings—both narrative and documentary—to match it.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024