How to use "story" in a sentence

As I reach the end of my story, I feel very sad

When they reach me, I begin telling my story: 'My name is Aron Ralston

He asks me what happened in the canyon and I begin telling my story

Once again, I tell my story

I told them our story, but they did not seem to understand

"Well, the giant squid is really just a story

'It's a long story,' said the Mad Hatter

When she finished her story, her sister laughed.

To make a long story short - he did.

'It's a long story,' I said

The story I want to tell is about a man who came into the company one day

'What a sad story it is! A young man like that suddenly gives up his business and retires from the world.'

Then he said to me, 'You are surprised that Mr Meltham's story affects me so strongly

Her history told a sad story

But another witness told a different story.

So Mrs Lewis's testimony seems to confirm George Hutchinson's story

There is one important point in favour of Hutchinson's story

Inspector Abbeline, a very able and experienced detective, interviewed him on November 12th - and believed his story

He stayed awake all night, thinking of Javert's story about Champmathieu

Madeleine - as we shall continue to call him for this part of the story - knew that he could not let Champmathieu go to prison for crimes he had not committed

Marius's attempts to find him also ended in failure, and the true story of his escape from the barricade remained a complete mystery to him.

One evening, when Marius was talking to Cosette and Jean Valjean about the mystery and his unsuccessful attempts to solve it, he became angry with Cosette's guardian's lack of interest in his story.

Most people think it is just a story

And Gerry remembers the old factory on the Thames and the boxes with the different addresses and the story about what Big Jones does when people steal from him

"You know, the surprise at the end of the story, the thing you don't expect." Eleanor smiles and takes a drink

In fact, I have an idea for a story: an idea I think about occasionally."

Is it my fault she is so stupid? So easy to manipulate? A little bit of blood on my face, a few tears, a fake story about him hitting me

"Jesus!" he screams, and he remembers the news story on the radio.

I want to tell you a little story that I know

Now, it's not a very nice story, and I can't promise you that there will be a very happy ending

But it's a true story, and that's something that's very important to me, and I want you to remember that.

He loved the same ultranet games and story-streams as her, and the same illusions in the simulator

"I'm dying to tell you a story about Gran

She began watching an ultranet story-stream

Just a story-stream

As soon as Cham's face disappeared, she suddenly remembered: Gran's story! She'd forgotten to tell him about it in the end.

She'd been about to do some studying, but watching a love story-stream was a much better idea

With the story-stream still playing, her eyes slowly began to shut.

Maybe it's part of the story, she thought sleepily - but then a light started flashing, and she opened her eyes.

They watched their favorite story-streams, and listened to their favorite music

The government's story about contamination is all a big lie, but it's too dangerous to challenge it, or to talk about this."

"So, Gran, what do you think?" she asked breathlessly, when she'd finished her story.

She passed the time at the energy center, with Niki, or watching story-streams

But of course, you know the whole story.'

The story was in all of them

It all made a good story

'Shall I phone Colonel Julyan? You can tell your story to him.'

Was he beginning to believe Favell's story?

I'm afraid you can't prove your story.'

The next day, Nathan and Natalie tell Zak their story

So you come to me with this story."

"Michael, it's not just a story."

Honey, you don't need a story about someone breaking into the house

She said, "I didn't make up that story about someone breaking into the house just so you could play the strong, reliable man to my weak, frightened female

And if he were lying, he wouldn't have told her the story about Charlie and coffee, for that could be substantiated or disproved with only a minimum of effort; he would have come up with a better alibi if he really needed one

He seemed to know that she had to go through the whole story to get it off her mind.

Curious about the story from which the illustration had been taken, Tina stepped to the box again to pluck out the graphic novel

She was curious about the story out of which that creature had stepped, for she had the peculiar feeling that, in some way, it would be similar to the story of Danny's death

The story was set in the mid-nineteenth century, when a physician's perception of the thin line between life and death was often cloudy

Most of the story dealt with Death's attempts to stop the mother and father on their desperate night journey; they were assaulted by every form of the walking dead, every manner of living corpse and vampire and ghoul and zombie and ghost, but they triumphed

The last panel of the illustrated story showed the parents and the boy walking out of the graveyard while Death watched them leave

This was just a silly comic book, an absurd horror story

The lead story in this issue was about a boy, approximately Danny's age, mistakenly pronounced dead, then buried alive, and then exhumed.

And even if she had seen the color illustration before, she knew damned well that she hadn't read the story - The Boy Who Was Not Dead

Her dream had been patterned after the images in the illustrated horror story

But she hadn't read the story until a few minutes ago

Sitting on the edge of the bed, she read the story again, hoping to see something important in it that she had overlooked in the first reading.

I'm pretty sure we can find a reporter who'll go with that much and write a story about how a bunch of nameless, faceless people want to keep us from reopening Danny's grave, how maybe something truly strange lies at the bottom of the Sierra tragedy

The similarities between the horror story and their attempt to exhume Danny's body chilled Elliot.

"Now," Tina said, "just like Death tried to stop the parents in the story, someone's trying to stop me from opening my son's grave."

In the story, the boy was buried alive

"But that's the only difference between the basic plot of this story and what we're going through

And the boy in the story being Danny's age

I want to see that story."

What reason does she have to doubt the official story of her son's death?

Does she have any proof that the official story of her son's death is false?

If we go to them now with a wild story about a mysterious conspiracy, they aren't going to be anxious to listen."

I think we'll have to take the story out of town, and before we do that, I'd like to have a few more facts."

But if we go to the press in Los Angeles or New York or some other city, the reporters there aren't going to have a whole lot of interest in it unless they see an aspect of the story that lifts it out of the local-interest category

Ideally, I'd even like to be able to hand the reporter a neat theory about what really happened to those scouts, something sensational that he can hook his story onto."

"Besides," Elliot said, "Kennebeck probably doesn't know the whole story

And they haven't been coming from someone who wants to expose the true story of the Sierra accident

If Danny's sending me messages in dreams, it's only natural he'd use images he was familiar with - like a monster out of a favorite horror story."

That was Stryker's story.

Pacing, Kennebeck said, "Now that we've tried to kill them, they know the story of the Sierra accident was entirely contrived

The clerk requested ID or a major credit card, and Elliot told a sad story of being victimized by a pickpocket at the airport

"The next time I read a story in the newspaper about some guy, who says he was picked up in a flying saucer and taken on a tour of the universe, I won't be so quick to laugh

spirit," Elliot said, deciding to stick with the occult terminology, not wanting to get bogged down in the real story about Danny.

"I read a newspaper story once about a guy who bought a Rolls-Royce with his card

Earlier this morning it had occurred to Elliot that he and Tina were the only people who knew that the official story of the Sierras accident was a lie

We'll give you a condensed version of the story behind all of this, and we'll record it as we go

Two hundred yards away, at the far side of the concrete field, stood a one-story windowless building, approximately a hundred feet long, with a steeply pitched slate roof.

The only feature in the hundred-foot-long, one-story, windowless concrete facade was a wide steel door

Dombey's story in peace

When they were reluctant, he made up a story about a friend being stranded in the mountains with a broken leg

Jaborski didn't believe Bollinger's story for a minute, but he finally offered to take him to the wildlife center where a rescue effort could be mounted

They'll help support your story when you go to the press with it

In fact, when you tell your story to the press, maybe you could slant it that way."

"But once our story breaks in the papers," Tina said, "they'll probably just shut this place down."

I was so young and naive, I assumed "network-approved writers" meant that each of these writers would be among the finest in the TV business, on the planet, in the universe, the elite of the elite, the crS232; me de la crS232; me, superexcellent wordsmiths incapable of spinning any story that wasn't the top, the ower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum, the Colosseum! Network-approved writers! I was in the lap of God, in the hands of ministering angels, and there could be no doubt whatsoever that we would have a hit with Help, My Feet Are Stuck to the Floor in Dean Koontz's Theater or whatever it would be called.

All I know is that during the fourteen or sixteen - or seven thousand - months that we worked together, through countless story meetings in the development executive's office, I was never sure that any of my writing confreres had read the complete novel that he or she was adapting - or understood what had been read

After the first story meeting, however, I never saw the two of them together

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

Because I was never in the room with both partners, getting a thoughtful response to a story note I'd given was impossible, because neither could speak for the other and could only promise to consult when next they met at the deathbed of whatever beloved person expired that week.

By the time the latest washing-machine-frenziedcat-dead-beloved story was delivered, no creative energy remained for the job at hand

If you haven't yet read The Eyes of Darkness, I am giving away nothing important in the story when I tell you that eventually, in a search for her lost son, Tina ventures into the High Sierras in winter, where she comes across a paved road, in the middle of the wilderness, that features heating coils under the pavement to prevent snow from sticking to it

It is difficult to know where to begin this story, but I have chosen a particular Wednesday at the vicarage

It's so mysterious, isn't it, the way she suddenly rented a house here, and hardly ever goes outside it? It's like a detective story

He has dark hair, his eyes are bright blue, and he can tell a good story

I repeated my story of discovering the body

She heard he had confessed, so made up a story

'What we want is the true story from both Mrs Protheroe and Mr Redding

'Well, we do not believe her story either,' said Melchett

So what about your story, Mrs Protheroe?'

He met some local people who were up early, but the story he told and his appearance were so wild that they would not listen to him

That was the form the story took

That was the story I got from him, bit by bit

The Martians, alarmed by the approach of a crowd, had killed a number of people with a quick-firing gun, the story said

You have to imagine what happened to the gunners towards Esher, waiting so tensely in the evening light, because none of them lived to tell the story

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

And now comes the strangest thing in my story

I remembered how I went to the garden gate as he came past, and how I had listened to his odd story of 'Men from Mars'.

I can only regret now, as I finish my story, how little I can help with the many questions which are still unanswered

After hearing this strange story, Holmes sat silent for a few minutes, thinking

I'm surprised that we are still alive to tell the story.

This is the story of a crime committed against a woman

'After the story you told me this morning, I've been reading my mother's old letters,' said Miss Halcombe

My one hope now was to prove Laura's identity, but Mr Kyrle, having heard the whole story, said that it would be impossible

'I want a full confession, written and signed, of your conspiracy with Sir Percival Glyde against Laura Fairlie,' I said, 'and I want proof of your story so that everyone knows the truth at last.'

My story begins with this simple fact: Percival and I needed money

Malala has said, "I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not

It is the story of many girls."