How to Use encyclopedia in a Sentence

encyclopedia

noun

• Most people are not walking around with a plant encyclopedia in their heads.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• 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
• To spice up their evening mocktails, an encyclopedia of recipes might help inspire.
  — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 18 Oct. 2022
• Wikipedia, where all posts are written by users, has become the web's encyclopedia.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2018
• Its name blends the Indonesian word for store—toko—with part of the word encyclopedia.
  — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• These talk pages are now, according to the Verge, at least five times as large as the encyclopedia itself.
  — Imogen West-Knights, The Dial, 10 Feb. 2026
• But that argument wasn’t good enough for the nerds who control the web’s favorite encyclopedia.
  — Ellen Airhart, WIRED, 10 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
• 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
• Wikipedia would not share if the man was affiliated with the online encyclopedia in any way.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2025
• 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
• An encyclopedia is a large collection of facts.
  — Jimmy Wales, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
• That framing is one example out of arguably an encyclopedia’s worth of them.
  — Chelsea Clinton, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026
• 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
• Gunn is somewhat of an encyclopedia of knowledge and the perfect person person to have guiding us through this trip.
  — George Koutsakis, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Having worked for the brand for decades, Espinola is a walking encyclopedia of all things agave.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2017
• So, from exotic bucket lists to our expert advice on how to make use of your butler, take note of our encyclopedia of cruise tips.
  — Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
• My favorite book is the encyclopedia.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
• Our goal is to write an encyclopedia, and of course, there's still a lot of growth to be had for our communities in the developing world.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
• Holmquist traces his devotion to history back to age 7, when his parents bought him a set of encyclopedias.
  — Jim Dudlicek, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
• 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
• What look like glossy books in the waiters’ arms are actually menus, hefty enough to count as a workout and pretty much an encyclopedia of tapas alone.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• Leonard is a walking encyclopedia about the course and history of the tournament.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram.com, 23 May 2017
• Michael Richardson, the bartender, is a walking encyclopedia of the movie.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• When many of us were growing up, the go-to source of information was the set of encyclopedias on the family bookshelf.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
• 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
• An encyclopedia of information that does not become moot the moment the first round begins.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
• 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