stories

Example Sentences

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“A Landscape Painter,” one of his earliest short stories, follows the antiheroic Locksley, a painter with one foot in both of the neighborhood’s social worlds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Johnson was a prominent right-wing media personality in the mid-2010s, when he produced a string of controversial news stories, many of which were later debunked.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

For more than 250 years, stories from early explorers described crocodiles as a common sight along the shores of the Seychelles.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

By then, however, stories had surfaced of foreign tourists being detained for weeks, even months, without explanation or apparent cause.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

They mostly talked to the people of the North End, listened to stories, and took care of the land with assorted donated trash pickers in hand.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith