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Example sentences for "story about"

  • There was a story about "strahps to your pahnts," which was vastly funny to us fellows--on the road from Milan to Venice.

  • If anybody else had told me such a story about an old country deacon, I wouldn't have believed it; but he said so himself, to me, at breakfast this morning.

  • They got up a story about him at one time.

  • I told him my story about my visit to the young doctor, and asked him what he thought of youthful practitioners in general and of Dr.

  • Here's a story about a steamboat cat," said George, "which was written by somebody for the New Orleans Pickayune.

  • I've a story about an intelligent cat that belonged to a doctor," said Charley.

  • I read not long ago," said Charley, "a story about a friendship between a cat and a rat.

  • One day while I was walking toward Carnac there was told to me in the most ordinary manner a story about a dead man who used to be seen going along the very road I was on.

  • Next day, in the same paper, he read a story about a father and a son, a boy of twelve, and the girl was mixed up in it again.

  • On the following day he read a story about a brother and a sister.

  • I once read a story about an animal race.

  • Finally, here is a story about one of the classic computer hacks.

  • Write a story about it--what Miss McDonald calls 'invest the region with romance.

  • Or else maybe I want a story about a bear.

  • Yes," laughed his mother, "I'll tell you a story about a bad bear.

  • Come here, little man, and I'll tell you a story about a bear!

  • Converses on sacrifices of Cain and Abel, and tells a story about Cain, 99.

  • Sidenote: Erasmus makes up a story about Cain.

  • Tell us a story about a hoodoo, Uncle Jonah" 128 X.

  • Perhaps after dinner I'll tell you a story about him.

  • Tell us a story about a hoodoo, Uncle Jonah," Hortense begged.

  • Well, suppose we compromise," said the Baron, "and have a story about a poodle dog.

  • I could say it was a story about a lion and Ananias could call it a giraffe story, and we'd each be right.

  • Tell us a story about a lion and a giraffe, and if you feel disposed throw in a few poodles for good measure.

  • There is a story about a honeymoon couple at Killarney which is worth telling.

  • Miss Cobbe related a story about a steady-going girl who had received money from her sister who was doing well in New York to pay her passage money out.

  • Just now I alluded to a mayor, which reminds me of a story about an Irish mayoress.

  • Uncle Philip tells the Children about some other Ants, that are very good Masons, and build Walls and Ceilings; and a Story about a very sensible Ant, which seemed to think a little.

  • Uncle Phillip tells the Boys a Story about a Philosopher and his Kite.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "story about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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