How to Use war story in a Sentence

war story

noun

• He liked to tell war stories from his life as a sea captain.
• We exchanged war stories about our time as interns at the same company.
• Serve up in a stemmed glass, and garnish with a scowl, or perhaps a war story.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 9 June 2022
• Well, yes, a good day for a hernia doctor to add to his war stories.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Gary Gersh isn't the type to tell war stories about his three-decade music career.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2019
• The poet’s eternal job, assigned by the Greek gods, is to keep this war story alive.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
• In the decades since, those men have all died, leaving Schab alone with his war stories and his memories.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Their love in the face of war story is indeed moving, but a romance movie is only as good as the strength of its leads.
  — cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
• The war stories teachers swap about nightmare parents are the stuff of legend.
  — Sarah Chaves, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2023
• There are as many different kinds of war stories as there are people who have been called to fight.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
• Modesto straight pride is a hot-button culture wars story, writ large.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• The kinds of war stories that bring a little levity and light to the darkness are inspiring.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• These anecdotes, such as a grandparent’s old war story, can help in the research process.
  — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Gears of War is a science-fiction war story that takes place on the fictional planet of Sera.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2022
• The night was already turning into a war story, a legend.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
• Welp, so much for my war story of being attacked in my driveway by the rabid raccoon nine years ago.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• The narrator likens his abusive childhood to a war story.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• Plus, history shows war stories tend to perform well at the Oscars.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
• For weeks prior, the looming event had played out in the national press as a hot-button culture wars story, writ large.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• This is a classic war story told simply and well, its meanings not forced but allowed to bubble up on their own.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Many of the runners hung out for several hours, trading war stories, until buses came to take them to the finish line.
  — Matt Rocheleau, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Determined to protect his boss, Shover told him to quietly get rid of his uniforms and to stop telling his fake war stories.
  — azcentral, 2 Apr. 2018
• Neil will lead a bourbon tasting and share his personal war stories.
  — John S. Matuszak, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• Unlike some of my player/writer war stories, Mayfield’s was caught on tape.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2019
• Runners greet each other warmly and exchange war stories of past Barkleys.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 26 May 2018
• She is not cursed by a vengeful goddess or demoted to a supporting role in some hero’s war story.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
• What’s left is a war story devoid of its genre catnip, the sense of heroism and adventure that dominates war films penned by the winning side.
  — Lesley Paterson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• While the filmmakers clearly got a contact high from hearing all these war stories, most civilians will find a little of this goes a long way.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Or, at least, the opportunity to hear some truly epic war stories.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
• But this was no war story; this was every filmmaker’s worst nightmare.
  — Meg James, Amy Kaufman and Julia Wick, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024