Example sentences for: stories

How can you use “stories” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Several historical buildings lead off Canongate, and a number have interesting stories to tell.

  • Hindus also have multiple creation stories, though they are all seen as different reflections of Brahman--the uniting holy principle of Hinduism.

  • Their stories range from a mirthful account by a Bristol woman about her shiftless next-door neighbor whose overflowing drain gutters flooded her property, to a somber story by a man from South Wales whose son's leg was amputated in a fearful childhood accident.

  • I reached a point in reading The Complete Stories where the arrival of a new young woman in any given story made me roll my eyes--not because Malamud's masculine reveries are particularly scandalous, but because the reveries seem scandalously inadequate to the cosmic hintings of his other stories.

  • The stories are set in different walks of life--a TV studio, a rodeo, a bank, an advertising agency, a toy factory--and each one seems to reflect the setting accurately.


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