How to Use short story in a Sentence

short story

noun

• The Life of Chuck is based on the 2020 Stephen King short story of the same name.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
• The pace is achingly slow, and the short story feels stretched over eight long episodes.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• The pace is achingly slow, and the short story feels stretched over eight long episodes.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• The short story was published in the Spring 2021 issue of Ploughshares.
  — Venita Blackburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• That’s all there is to the plot, based on a short story by the great Richard Matheson.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• This is a short story about the business of telling stories, in three acts.
  — Jason Kilar, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
• Read the complete short stories of the late Alice Munro.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2024
• In this, the short story is more like a play: a play with five dead minutes is a dead play.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• It’s by Clive Barker, who wrote the short story that inspired the movies.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• And does a lot of runs of books that have gone out of print and short story collections.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2021
• Chris Hemsworth stars in this movie, based on a short story by George Saunders.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
• To subscribe to the Free Press at discount rates and read lots of short stories plus some long ones, click here.
  — Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024
• Based on a short story from 1969, Stanley Kubrick acquired the rights but never lived to see the film made.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
• The short story is the U.S. women are better then the men, at least in track and basketball.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• And my dad had set the competition to write a short story.
  — Jerry Bonner, Wired, 19 Aug. 2021
• She’s been writing short stories for years, and that’s what Harper’s thinks of her work.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
• On a macro level, the book itself ended up like a short story.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• That’s the short story, but there has been plenty fodder for the pundits and talking heads.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 19 May 2022
• Stephen King is out with a new collection of short stories.
  — Courtney Dorning, NPR, 22 May 2024
• The schoolgirl Yasmin, still in awe of her parents’ true love, writes a short story for class about it.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• Colm Bairéad, based on the short story ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 12 Mar. 2022
• The short story glances on the protagonist’s past; the movie begins there, as present tense.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• But there's a lesson to be learned in this fabulously off-the-wall short story about life on the edge.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• The short story requires attention to setting in the way that a novel does.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
• King will offer a master class on the short story the next morning.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• The whimsical dress code is inspired by a 1962 J.G. Ballard short story of the same name.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 May 2024
• My favorite book of his is this collection of short stories called Going to Meet the Man.
  — Michael Cuby, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
• It’s echoed heavily in the movie and stands on its own as a terrific short story.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• The script is co-written by the filmmaker and Eli Kent, who together adapted a short story by Owen Marshall.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
• Since then, the two have chosen over 70 books for their club, selected on a monthly basis, ranging from fiction to memoir to short story collections.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024