How to Use success story in a Sentence

success story

noun
  • Is there a success story that has stuck out for you?
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Hers is not an overnight success story.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 May 2026
  • But to his oldest fans, all of it has been a success story.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • For about a decade, Tunisia was talked about as a success story.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • That’s the part of the success story nobody wants to hear.
    — Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
  • From the outside, my life looked like a success story.
    — Jane Marie Chen, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • That’s a success story worth raising a glass to.
    — Indrani Sen, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2025
  • On paper the role is a success story.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Nyx is far from the only success story.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 9 Feb. 2026
  • One success story comes from Unilever.
    — Tina Vatanka Murphy, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • But this success story has a wrinkle.
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • Josh Tongue has been the bowling success story of the tour.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That to me is a very specific type of success story.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Trump loves a good business success story, so this could be his angle.
    — Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Love isn’t the Cheese Heads’ first success story.
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Elsewhere on the list, man, the Suits success story will not end.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a lot that other brands can learn from the Labubu success story.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Phillips was the type of scrap-heap bullpen success story the Dodgers have excelled with.
    — Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • What makes a grassroots success story?
    — William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • What happened here isn’t just a local success story.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • But the company was not a success story.
    — Bill Gurley, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The chart-topping rapper from the Bronx has come a long way with her success story.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The career Kaszas has forged has been anything but an overnight success story.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • For a success story like this, the right videos featuring the right songs have to end up in front of the right people.
    — Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Reich had his own success story against Miami to share with his team this week.
    — Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Which success story best mirrors their challenge?
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Can the Warriors find another success story over the next few weeks?
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
  • Your success story is transforming as the sun bonds with Pluto.
    — USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
  • And Wallen’s success story is far from the genre’s only recent standout.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2023
  • These launches have helped boost its share price, but are just one part of a broader AI success story.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025

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