whole story

noun

: all the facts : everything

They failed to tell us the whole story.

Examples of whole story in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Underwriters Laboratories organization was founded here in 1894, partly in response to electrical safety concerns at the Chicago World’s Fair; the exhibit has the whole story. — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026

The job of a college football coach changes by the month and by the court ruling, and wins and losses on the field don’t always tell the whole story. — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026

No clinic visit captures the whole story, usually the nuances only become visible to someone watching closely. — Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

The harder question is whether injection counts tell the whole story. — Katrine Wallace, STAT, 11 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for whole story

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