Example sentences for: stories--the

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

  • Music is always telling stories (more or less), and I think that charismatic power is an element in one of those stories--the force we feel when a strong personality comes up against a demonic power and refuses to be cowed, and takes hair-raising risks, and succeeds in being, if only for a moment, the demon's equal.

  • London's Evening Standard filled its front page Thursday with two stories--the death of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and the award of libel damages of more than $160,000 each to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman over allegations in a British newspaper that their marriage was a "hypocritical sham" to cover up their homosexuality.

  • Things are a little slow even for a Sunday when two of the majors working the weekend lead with local stories--the Los Angeles Times goes with a water dispute between L.A. and San Diego, and the Washington Post with a school budget story.

  • The New York Times and Los Angeles Times each lead with local stories--the former with a city proposal to allow early retirement for public school teachers, the latter with the mayor's pick of a black 32-year department veteran to be the next LAPD chief.


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