the whole story
Example Sentences
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The gap between who the score covers and who actually gets hurt is the whole story.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
That’s the whole story in a single word.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
I came clean and told Pop the whole story, selling it under the guise of patriotism — and with three-part harmony and a harmonica.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
But hers is not the whole story, and the moment we decide reading one spouse’s account makes us qualified to render a verdict on the couple, we are participating in intellectual laziness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Someday soon she would tell them the whole story.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
