How to Use backstory in a Sentence

backstory

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• This particular copy comes with quite the backstory, too.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2022
• Plus outtakes, plus backstory about them, plus a discussion with their surviving friends and me and my brother talking about them with our wives.
  — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• Newspapers hinted at this threat at the time, but Woodward reveals the backstory in robust and chilling detail.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
• Another challenge was to give each character a backstory that would feed into the action, rather than just observe their responses to events.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 Oct. 2022
• They are caught in the middle of the action, the spin of a campaign or backstory, and offer subtle nods to larger currents in our country’s history.
  — Ken Burns, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2022
• Milioti is loath, however, to dive into detail about her acting process, like the backstory of the scars that riddle Sofia’s body.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024
• The Crown, which premieres Nov. 9, as viewers learn the backstory of how the best-selling biography came to be.
  — Time, 9 Nov. 2022
• Meacham does not portray Lincoln’s backstory as mere iconography — the log cabin, the backwoods education, the rail splitting.
  — Douglass K. Daniel, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
• Ramattra’s backstory focuses on his continuing struggle to preserve his race in the face of human prejudice.
  — Hawken Miller, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
• Gaviria soon began diving into the ingredient’s backstory, the importance of sourcing, and the connection with the farmers and their culture.
  — Gina Rae La Cerva, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2022
• Shetty’s backstory with the plane crash, that came out of room.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• Only the location, the backstory and the names have changed.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
• Well, here’s the backstory, and here’s the players involved.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
• Collins outlined Snow’s backstory in the book on which that film was based.
  — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 20 June 2024
• But over several listens, the backstory starts to fall away, and the song as a whole sinks in.
  — Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
• The scan visor was also the main means by which much of the game’s story and backstory were told.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Here’s the backstory of Wisconsin raising the flag over the years.
  — Rachel Hale, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2024
• Sources say the executives had no idea what to make of the doll or its backstory.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
• Who wants a hero who expires under the sheer weight of backstory?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• The new film circles back to the opening, and the backstory, of the first film: Adonis’s troubled childhood years in a group home.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
• The Marauders and their map play a huge role in both the book and the movie, but their backstory and the ways the map is used differ slightly on-screen.
  — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• This character has such a rich backstory to be able to play with.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 5 Jan. 2023
• So, then the challenge of all of that is that there is the internals of the characters and the backstory, and the externals.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
• As for the name Bad Astronaut, the backstory involves beer, of course.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 28 Nov. 2022
• The backstory: No one knows what the people who invented the Royal Game of Ur called it.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
• The backstory on that project includes the Port of Baltimore.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2024
• There’s narrative and backstory lacking, and the songs don’t help much.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2023
• That felt like her backstory served the forward movement of the show versus added something.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• Queen Charlotte gives a bit more insight into the backstory behind the queen's right hand man and his love life.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 12 May 2023
• And there are many, many more across the globe, each with its own infinitely rich backstory.
  — Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024