encyclopedia
Example Sentences
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Bat felt like looking through his animal encyclopedia, which he often did after school, so he pulled it down from the bookshelf and dropped comfortably onto his beanbag.
From Literature
To say that “On the Altar” functions more like an encyclopedia than a monograph may sound like criticism.
Boomer Malone picked the James brothers, but then he couldn’t find them in the children’s encyclopedia.
From Literature
He left behind a seminal 37-volume encyclopedia, the “Natural History,” and the surviving letters of his nephew paint a colorful portrait of a workaholic who rarely slept.
Rather than a textbook or encyclopedia entry—a digest of all the known facts—our model is the subtitle of Kenneth Clark’s 1969 “Civilisation” series: “A personal view.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
