How to Use backstory in a Sentence

backstory

noun

• 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 backstory: Welch got his start as a banker, then discovered his love of food.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
• 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 daughter of a sheriff, Bex comes with backstory or two.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 19 Jan. 2025
• His life hadn’t been easy, but his backstory was a strong selling point.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Here is the backstory on some of the major debates that won't happen.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2022
• This character has such a rich backstory to be able to play with.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 5 Jan. 2023
• The backstory: A Stanley Cup that ended a 42-year drought?
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2022
• 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
• Eggers adds more than backstory and the clash between two world views.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
• But beyond the picturesque is a backstory of concerns about the supply of fish.
  — Diane Cole, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
• The backstory on that project includes the Port of Baltimore.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2024
• Kristen goes down [to converse with the competing chefs in the kitchen arena] and gets the backstory.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 12 June 2022
• There’s narrative and backstory lacking, and the songs don’t help much.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2023
• Fast forward to present day and fans are finally getting to hear the beloved backstory of the legendary space ranger in the new film Lightyear.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 9 July 2022
• 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
• There's a deeper backstory that's going to open up, and hopefully—nothing's a guarantee—there's a lot more story to be told.
  — H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
• Review 300 years of English history and the backstory of the country’s currency at the Bank of England’s on-site museum.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025