cover story

noun

: a story accompanying a magazine-cover illustration

Examples of cover story in a Sentence

The magazine recently did a cover story on diabetes.

Recent Examples on the Web

The latest murder victim talks about crashing out in the castle and blowing her own cover story. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Nov. 2026

Learn all about Turnstile’s rise in Lawrence Burney’s cover story Turnstile Blew Up. — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026

Jenna Ortega opened up to Vogue magazine as part of a new cover story about her nonexistent relationship to how the public receives her movies. — Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026

Those interviews spawned a cover story in collaboration with Rolling Stone Canada — but there was even more from the conversations. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cover story

• allegory
• amatory
• auditory
• category
• clerestory
• crematory
• desultory
• dilatory
• dormitory
• excretory
• feudatory
• gustatory