How to Use short story in a Sentence

short story

noun

• The pace is achingly slow, and the short story feels stretched over eight long episodes.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• This is a short story about the business of telling stories, in three acts.
  — Jason Kilar, WSJ, 5 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Writing short stories, for me, is all about zooming in on something.
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Gurba, 46, has published five books and too many short stories and essays to count.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Dinklage’s Steven was based on a character from one of those very-short stories, though Miller zhuzhed up the concept for screen.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
• Salaün recalled asking the students in his French class to write a short story about the realization of a dream.
  — Tania Ganguli James Hill, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
• After the war, a few parts were published as short stories in magazines.
  — Nina Siegal, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• Expect answers to at least one of those questions in this fast-moving, fun short story.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
• Sanderson also wrote two short stories while working on Wheel of Time.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• Morris also has authored two novels and a book of short stories.
  — Catherine Herridge, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024
• In the short story that gives the movie its name, the boy, who’s receiving treatments for a hearing problem, is Komura’s nephew.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
• Based on the Joe Hill short story, this is the rare film that improves upon the source material by expanding it.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022
• Gary Lutz’s early short story collection, Stories in the Worst Way.
  — Riza Cruz, ELLE, 29 June 2022
• The group was founded in 2007 to entertain by reading short stories aloud for a live audience.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
• It's been a rocky start to Fraley's tenure in Cincinnati, but Friday offers a new chapter in what's been a short story so far.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 29 July 2022
• Russell delivers these strange short stories with all the aplomb of the world’s most confidant rocker.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 July 2023
• But the show was and remains a very particular kind of tale, in the mold of the archetypal short story writer O. Henry.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• This short story appears in the November 2022 print edition.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
• Hill, who has gone on to be a short story writer and playwright, has a marvelous style and a sly sense of humor that frequently surfaces.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2022
• Starting on December 1, unwrap a new short story each night to lean into the magic of the season with Mickey and friends.
  — Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 19 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024