How to Use story in a Sentence

story

noun
  • Read the full story by Michael Hawthorne and Adriana Pérez.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2023
  • The fans also ship Greg and Tom, almost like a love story.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • That story starts when this fossil flew into his life, out of the blue.
    Flora Lichtman, Scientific American, 31 May 2023
  • But her story was taken from her, and she was outed in a British tabloid.
    Nila Do Simon, ELLE, 10 June 2023
  • What appeared to be a piece of the structure or contents was lodged about two stories high in a tree.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • But there was a myth, some stories that people liked to tell that were partly true and some that weren't true at all.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The weekly column takes you behind the scenes and shines a spotlight on unique stories.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Certainly, there were stories on the list that were tied to major news events.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Page and Savage co-wrote the film’s story, and both act as producers.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
  • Keep an eye out this week for a couple of stories unpacking what has (and hasn’t) changed since.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • There’s more: Those looking for love stories should check out the best romance novels of 2022.
    David Gessner, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • The film dramatizes the true crime story chronicled in author David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • That story has played out again and again in the evolution of residuals.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Young talents are emerging, with great stories to tell.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
  • But the glitzy launch exposed another side of the Vantage story.
    Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • A number of recent stories chart the tangled, tragic global fault lines of the war.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Some kids will love racing them, others will make up stories around them, and still others might like to crash them.
    Bridget Shirvell, Parents, 18 Nov. 2023
  • As history tells us, princess stories come with a lot of baggage.
    Emily Zemler, Allure, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Here are our favorite Quartz stories from last week, plus one bonus listen to get your day started off right.
    Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2024
  • But now the former safety chief at Google is warning that the the tech is far from perfect, and A.I. could pose a real risk if it’s used to write news stories.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 30 May 2023
  • Collins did, and what happened wasn’t simply a story of learning to respect Irish dance, but coming to love it.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Listen to her story on Morning Edition, or read it here.
    Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The Israel Defense Forces did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
    Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • In Jackson’s version of the Drexciya story, these spirits helped the women who fell from slave ships and their babies.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • At the time of this story, Clark County had rejected Issue 1 by a single vote.
    Zachary Smith, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Recent changes to buildings codes in the U.S. permit mass timber buildings as tall as 18 stories.
    Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
  • Fate loves irony though, as the tycoon likes to say, because the wheels are also coming off his own equity story.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Their stories are the story of this country, all the joy and heartbreak, all the vaunted hope and dismal reality.
    Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • According to the Cahuilla creation story, Tortez says, the people of this desert were born from a bolt of lightning that lit up the sky and flooded the empty land with life.
    Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2024

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