the whole story

Example Sentences

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Holloway added: "I want to express to people that you are allowed to evolve and change and embrace the whole story, their whole selves."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

While those rules explain how many genetic traits are passed from parents to offspring, scientists have also known that DNA sequences are not the whole story.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

Does that put the lie to the whole story everyone wants to tell about John Roberts versus Donald Trump?

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

Those figures speak to the importance of Persian oil to China’s power, but they don’t tell the whole story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

He told her the whole story, from the moment Asta had spotted the man under the oak tree to the story Mrs. Carpenter in the chandlery had shown him in the Oxford Times.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman