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

Clint Bentley’s powerful, melancholy drama — for my money the best film of the year — tells the life story of one man and remains intently focused on its mostly passive central character throughout. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025

To explain their life story here would spoil the movie, but as is the case in real life, things aren't always sunshine and roses for the Sardinas — one wildly unexpected event turns their world upside down. —Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Nov. 2025

Mark Kelly has been in the Senate since winning a 2020 special election and is a man whose life story includes several threads that would be the biggest part of most people’s biography. —Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 23 Nov. 2025

Watson’s life story also has been warped by the myth of the lone genius, or in the case of Watson and Crick, the lone geniuses. —Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for life story

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