life story

noun

: the things that have happened to someone in life

a life story that includes a childhood of extreme poverty

She told us her life story.

Examples of life story in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

From the first, Prikryl mixes her life story into her characters’ speeches, while the autobiographical lyrics begin to feel like dramatic monologues in disguise. — Langdon Hammer, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

The gift is to be able to not only understand a story, but to take a real life story and then add his sauce to it, and give it to us within the flow of the conversation. — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2026

Sliding behind the wheel of a side-by-side utility vehicle, Shoffner takes off across the property and recounts her life story that led her away from the farm, into nonprofit work and back home when her dad got sick. — Stephen Fowler, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026

The original impetus for the film, to be honest, was to look at an incredible life story over a long German period. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for life story

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