Example sentences for: story--and

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

  • Monday brings more postings on various Web sites: The Drudge Report updates the story--and the story behind the story.

  • And because it published an editorial Feb. 22 taunting the rest of the press for not following it on the story--and still didn't mention the pardon--it scores an extra two points.

  • As played by Jeremy Brett, Holmes was so eccentric, so mannered, that all attention was drawn to him, rather than to the story--and after you had seen him several times, he elicited giggles rather than puzzlement.

  • In the case of Bob Dole, afflicted reporters repeat the well-grooved narrative of his Wound, Recovery, New Sensitivity, because it makes for a good and easy story--and because it fits with their line that the formerly taciturn/stoic, mean/hatchet-wielding Dole has evolved, even when the record shows that he's been a serial blubberer since the '70s and, despite the tears, is just as mean as ever.

  • Of course, that is only the beginning of the story--and by the time you've pieced this much together, the plot has deepened to involve Treat Morrison, United States ambassador-at-large, and American policy toward the Nicaraguan contras.


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