Word Finder - story

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A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.

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The book tells the story of two roommates.

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A lie, fiction.

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You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?

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(usually pluralized) A soap opera.

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What will she do without being able to watch her stories?

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History.

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A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

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I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.

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A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.

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To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

That's an incredible story, Martha.

He told his wonderful story to the king; but the king would not believe him.

What's the story on sweet Lydia?

It is a sad story, but if you will try to restrain your tears I will tell you about it.

I must tell you, mon cher," he continued in the sad and measured tones of a man who intends to tell a long story, "that our name is one of the most ancient in France."

It's a beautiful story.

Every dead soldier has a face, a story, and a bereaved family.

The guy is a story and a half.

I could make up some story; maybe I'm writing a magazine piece.

I will tell you another story of the same brave and famous king.

A little girl in a story was not courageous.

If you could only read, you might learn that story and enjoy it.

That night when Christopher went home he had a wonderful story to tell.

Everything Miss Sullivan taught me she illustrated by a beautiful story or a poem.

I left a message, from Tommy, his so called fishing buddy, saying I had a fish story for him and requesting him to call as soon as possible.

This part of the story is fully told.

I am perfectly sure I wrote the story myself.

But that's another story for another day.

His story checked out, and after extensive questioning, the police released him.

But when it is granted that the ancient Hebrews, like other primitive peoples, had their own mythical and traditional figures, the story of Cain becomes less obscure.

And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia.

Nice story, but that's about all it is.

The chance of anyone believing the story was practically nil.

Lydia Larkin thought the story was nonsense.

The oldest form of his story is found in the Passio ascribed to Eucherius, bishop of Lyons, c. 450, who relates how the "Theban" legion commanded by Mauritius was sent to north Italy to reinforce the army of Maximinian.

According to another story, her son Perseus, on his return with the head of Medusa, finding his mother persecuted by Polydectes, turned him into stone, and took Danae back with him to Argos.

The story of Talos, the Cretan man of brass, who heated himself red-hot and clasped strangers in his embrace as soon as they landed on the island, is probably of similar origin.

But to whom is the story to be assigned?

In this connexion Yaqui tells a curious story of the opening of one of the tombs by the caliph, which in spite of fabulous incidents, recalling the legend of Roderic the Goth, shows some traces of local knowledge.

Be this as it may, we may confidently date the purification of Wagner's music at the moment when he set to work on a story which carried him finally away from that world of stereotyped operatic passions into which he had already breathed so much disturbing life.

The inscription confirms in every respect the Buddhist story, and makes it certain that, at the time when it was put up, the tradition now handed down in the books was current at the spot.

Dean tried hard to exclude Jennifer Radisson from consideration as a malefactor, although he reluctantly admitted his sole reason to pass on her as a suspect was his belief in her story.

He adlibbed a ridiculous story of wanting do a magazine piece on Shipton and began to flatter the listener, saying he was recommended as a prime source of accurate information.

Another notice occurs in the story of Nicolo Conti (c. 1440), who explains the name to mean "Island of Gold," and speaks of a lake with peculiar virtues as existing in it.

The story of the administrative development of the Church in the 5th century is mainly the story of the final emergence and constitution of the great " patriarchates," as authorities superior to metropolitans and provincial synods.

In the quiet of a country town, far removed from actual contact with painful scenes, but on the edge of the whirlwind raised by the Fugitive Slave Bill, memory and imagination had full scope, and she wrote for serial publication in The National Era, an anti-slavery paper of Washington, D.C., the story of "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly."

She reinforced her story with A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she accumulated a large number of documents and testimonies against the great evil; and in 1853 she made a journey to Europe, devoting herself especially to creating an entente cordiale between Englishwomen and Americans on the question of the day.

The story is that the Romans, entangled in a defile, were suffering from thirst.

But the most famous story in which he figures is that of his wife Eurydice.

The story in this form belongs to the time of Virgil, who first introduces the name of Aristaeus.

The story is repeated of Dionysus; he is torn in pieces, and his head is carried down to Lesbos.

The whole story of the different sugars existing in the planttheir relations and their several functionsrequires renewed investigation.

The whole story points to a general distribution of flowering plants from the northern hemisphere southwards.

The conception of the north-western route to Cathay now leads the story of exploration, for the first time as far as important and sustained efforts are concerned, towards the Arctic seas.

It is surrounded on the first story by a sixteensided gallery (the Hochmiinster) adorned by antique marble and granite columns, of various sizes, brought by Charlemagne's orders from Rome, Ravenna and Trier.

The charge of perjury at once collapsed and was withdrawn on January 6th, the opening of the grave definitely putting an end to the story of an identity between the two men.

Reaching Beaton's Mill he revealed his identity, and, according to the popular story, was killed on the 11 th of June 1488 by a soldier in the guise of a priest who had been called in to shrive him.

The story of the youth of Moses is, as is commonly the case with great heroes, of secondary origin; moreover, the circumstances of his birth as related in Exod.

His great work, the forcing into common law of the principles of civil law, was unaccomplished; but Story says "he seemed about to accomplish [it]; for his arguments before the Supreme Court were crowded with the principles of the Roman Law, wrought into the texture of the Common Law with great success."

But it took firm root on Norman soil; it made its way to England at an early stage of its growth, and from that time it went on developing and improving on both sides of the Channel till the artistic revolution came by which, throughout northern Europe, the Romanesque styles gave way to the Gothic. Thus the history of architecture in England during the 11th and 12th centuries is a very different story from the history of the art in Sicily during the same time.