How to Use life story in a Sentence

life story

noun
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  • Even to his old friends, Derek has changed his life story over and over.
    — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The contents of the suitcase, more or less, told Emil Hess’s life story.
    — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • Fans of Britney Spears will soon be able to hear her life story in her own words.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The memoir details the life story of the first Black woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
    — Essence, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Every person should have the right to their own life story.
    — Danielle Marie Holland, Parents, 19 Apr. 2024
  • No boats appeared to feature in his life story, and his name did not seem to be Ali.
    — Mohammed Hanif, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2024
  • On one wall, for example, there is a string of pictures that tell the artist’s life story.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 June 2024
  • Just trying to read as much about the real life story, and Mary Jayne herself.
    — Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The last few years keep getting better and better for you, and your life story feels like a movie in its own right.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Armendáriz served as a consultant on the new movie based on his life story.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
  • To observe so soon into her life story that there is no sustenance in the past is to give the past an edge.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Keep it short Employers don’t need to read your whole life story.
    — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • The 2009 hit is based on Michael Lewis' non-fiction book about the evolution of football and Oher's life story.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2023
  • James Mangold wisely avoids a birth to death, soup to nuts telling of Bob Dylan’s life story.
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The life story of the individual is a restatement of the life story of the group.
    — John Byron Kuhner, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Aaron Hernandez’s life story will be told through a new lens.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Walking through the same doors as a physician in training felt like the bookend that made her whole life story make sense.
    — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Jackson is not alone among Justices in telling her life story.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But in a last-ditch attempt to connect with Lily, the old woman recounts her life story.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Queen Latifah's life story is heading to the big screen!
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The fact that all three are about Arnold Schwarzenegger is a reminder of just how remarkable his life story is.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • The language mélange reflects both the eatery’s cuisine ‒ a mix of sushi, Thai, and Burmese offerings ‒ and the owner’s life story.
    — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The way Martha Stewart sees it, her life story is pretty simple.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Born Virginia Wynette Pugh in 1942, Wynette had a resonantly sad voice and a life story to match.
    — Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Legendary life story coming to the big screen Doctors checked on McMahon before he was helped out of the ring.
    — Joe Reedy, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Alicia Keys has learned a lot watching her life story back in Broadway's Hell's Kitchen.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
  • In the 1881 edition of Truth’s life story, Olive Gilbert described a time when Truth tried to flag down a streetcar, only to be ignored.
    — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Grace recounts her life life story to a humble garden snail called Sylvia.
    — Robert Lang, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Bob Marley: One Love tells the life story of the Jamaican musician, who urged peace and unity through his songs.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Imagine Rocky from the first movie narrating his life story.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023

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