How to Use short story in a Sentence

short story

noun

• The Life of Chuck is based on the 2020 Stephen King short story of the same name.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
• The pace is achingly slow, and the short story feels stretched over eight long episodes.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• The pace is achingly slow, and the short story feels stretched over eight long episodes.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• That’s all there is to the plot, based on a short story by the great Richard Matheson.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• This is a short story about the business of telling stories, in three acts.
  — Jason Kilar, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
• Read the complete short stories of the late Alice Munro.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2024
• In this, the short story is more like a play: a play with five dead minutes is a dead play.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• And does a lot of runs of books that have gone out of print and short story collections.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2021
• Chris Hemsworth stars in this movie, based on a short story by George Saunders.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
• To subscribe to the Free Press at discount rates and read lots of short stories plus some long ones, click here.
  — Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024
• Based on a short story from 1969, Stanley Kubrick acquired the rights but never lived to see the film made.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
• The short story is the U.S. women are better then the men, at least in track and basketball.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• She’s been writing short stories for years, and that’s what Harper’s thinks of her work.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
• On a macro level, the book itself ended up like a short story.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• That’s the short story, but there has been plenty fodder for the pundits and talking heads.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 19 May 2022
• Stephen King is out with a new collection of short stories.
  — Courtney Dorning, NPR, 22 May 2024
• The schoolgirl Yasmin, still in awe of her parents’ true love, writes a short story for class about it.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• Colm Bairéad, based on the short story ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 12 Mar. 2022
• The short story glances on the protagonist’s past; the movie begins there, as present tense.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• But there's a lesson to be learned in this fabulously off-the-wall short story about life on the edge.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• The short story requires attention to setting in the way that a novel does.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
• King will offer a master class on the short story the next morning.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• The whimsical dress code is inspired by a 1962 J.G. Ballard short story of the same name.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 May 2024
• My favorite book of his is this collection of short stories called Going to Meet the Man.
  — Michael Cuby, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
• From Campfires of the Dead and the Living, a short story collection, which will be published next month by 11:11 Press.
  — Peter Christopher, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• He’s also published dozens of short stories in the New Yorker and two novels.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2024
• The fact that there is only one Morrison short story seems of a piece with her œuvre.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• Imagine a child reading a short story about a boy who wakes up in the morning and fakes being sick to avoid going to school.
  — David Risher, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
• In late 2016, Rachel Khong began writing a short story.
  — Liz Ohanesian, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2024
• This clever anthology series poses a fateful question to viewers at the end of each short story: fact or fiction?
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024