stories

Example Sentences

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We kept investigating until their stories began to converge.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

United States acknowledged, location data is especially revealing because movement forms narrative and human beings tell stories through where they go.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

“A lot of the stories they have to tell are not so good. There are people doing things to each other that are not very nice, but that’s part of the danger of being human.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Enchanted by the stories he heard from his co-workers, he set out for New York around 1921, arriving in the early years of the Harlem Renaissance.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Later, it became one of those family stories we all went on telling, but Karli told it best—mimicking the shock on the policeman’s face wonderfully well.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo