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

That might seem like Polly Pocket numbers compared to the 800,000 Ford F-Series trucks sold in 2025, but raw numbers don’t tell the whole story. — Michael Ballaban, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

Karen Clay, professor of economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, says the common error is treating one number as the whole story. — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Airline Add-On Fees A ticket price rarely tells the whole story. — Matthew Kayser july 29, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026

While the nursery tag provides a good starting point, plant tags often don’t tell the whole story, says Elisabeth Ginsburg, horticultural educator and author of the Gardener’s Apprentice. — Colleen Sullivan, Martha Stewart, 21 July 2026

Rhymes for whole story

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