How to Use backstory in a Sentence

backstory

noun

• Shetty’s backstory with the plane crash, that came out of room.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• Only the location, the backstory and the names have changed.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
• Well, here’s the backstory, and here’s the players involved.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
• But over several listens, the backstory starts to fall away, and the song as a whole sinks in.
  — Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
• Sources say the executives had no idea what to make of the doll or its backstory.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
• Who wants a hero who expires under the sheer weight of backstory?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• The new film circles back to the opening, and the backstory, of the first film: Adonis’s troubled childhood years in a group home.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
• There’s narrative and backstory lacking, and the songs don’t help much.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2023
• That felt like her backstory served the forward movement of the show versus added something.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• Queen Charlotte gives a bit more insight into the backstory behind the queen's right hand man and his love life.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 12 May 2023
• And there are many, many more across the globe, each with its own infinitely rich backstory.
  — Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
• In the first room of the exhibit, visitors learn that backstory.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• A lot of ink has been spilled imagining a backstory to this music.
  — John Adams, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• The focus on music may seem out of place to those who aren’t familiar with Kono’s backstory.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2023
• His backstory was well known, as one of seven mainstays from that Houston squad still in the majors.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
• For the first time, though, his backstory doesn’t feel concocted for effect.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• On the other hand, the new movie centers on something small and quiet: the backstory of Rocket Raccoon.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• The tour starts with Lamborghini’s first car, the 350GT, which has a unique and important backstory.
  — Michael Aaron, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
• Once again, an excess of backstory weighed the momentum down.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• Gerry’s backstory leading up to his lead role on the show is pretty tragic.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 17 July 2023
• That just feels like a lot of information to cram into a backstory.
  — Katharine Gammon, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2023
• This isn’t helped by the backstory of the characters’ friendship, which, at least as it is presented within the show, makes no sense.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• The way it was set up with the mini-documentary and the backstory about how all four Beatles contributed to the song over the decades was so poignant.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2023
• And while the allure comes from its spacious inside, the three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom house comes with quite the famous backstory.
  — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• In terms of the scenes that were cut, in the original draft there was a lot more character exposition and backstory.
  — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
• That’s because the armchairs are heirlooms, the paintings are by friends, and everything has a backstory.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Nov. 2023
• The singer walks through the album, song by song, providing commentary and backstory.
  — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
• The car would be noteworthy even without its backstory, though.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
• To give a little backstory, Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one night fling in London.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
• A lot of people have been talking about the backstory — or lack thereof — to the onscreen civil war, and how Texas and California came to team up.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024