: true to life
a true-life story

Examples of true-life in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This true-life tale about perseverance, compassion and second chances cuts right to the quick. Courtney Howard, Variety, 13 Mar. 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 Where to watch: Netflix 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Scorsese's at the top of his legendary game with this gripping true-life Western crime drama about love and greed that wrestles with America’s complicated history concerning Indigenous people. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024 In the film, which tells the wild true-life David vs. Goliath tale of the GameStop short squeeze of early 2021, the brothers give each other a lot of hell, including at one point getting into a slapping match in the backseat of their parent's car like a couple of children. Lauren Huff, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2023 Murray starred as a Civil War-era bounty hunter on the 1968-69 ABC series The Outcasts and co-wrote and directed The Cross and the Switchblade (1970), a true-life drama about a crusading New York minister (Pat Boone) that also featured Erik Estrada in his screen debut. Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 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 Like Cooper, Malek was a cisgender straight man playing a true-life bisexual. Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2023 Even its fans know that reality television is, like, 80% fiction, wrangling a range of more or less predictable possibilities within parameters set by the producers, while their true-life subjects supply the details and the dialogue that will be massaged into something like a story. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of true-life was in 1926

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“True-life.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/true-life. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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