How to Use true-life in a Sentence

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• One of the world’s great true-life train heist stories is set to return to the big screen in China.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2024
• The result is a true-life tale of fame and friendship stranger (and funnier) than fiction.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• This true-life tale about perseverance, compassion and second chances cuts right to the quick.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
• Andrew Lazar, who last worked on true-life swimming drama Nyad, is producing.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2024
• From haunted houses and possessed dolls to true-life exorcisms, check out these 10 horror movies based on real-life events.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• The film’s story is loosely based on the true-life reunion of Song, her American husband and her Korean school pal, which took place when the director was 29.
  — Robert Ito, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• What attracts you to telling these sensational true-life stories?
  — Nigel Smith, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
• Like Cooper, Malek was a cisgender straight man playing a true-life bisexual.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• Here, Pohlad has found another true-life music-industry story about family and the slippery nature of success.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2023
• This true-life riches-to-rags-to-rebirth saga, chronicled in Lauren Greenfield’s 2012 documentary of the same title, offers more in the way of sociopolitical critique than is usual for a mass-market entertainment.
  — Gordon Cox, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
• In the true-life story, Roberts melded her comic and dramatic talents as a single mother who takes a stuffy law firm by storm and isn't afraid to be a little flirty when taking on a utility company responsible for an environmental hazard.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024