How to Use war story in a Sentence

war story

noun
  • He liked to tell war stories from his life as a sea captain.
  • We exchanged war stories about our time as interns at the same company.
  • Well, yes, a good day for a hernia doctor to add to his war stories.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Usually, with these sort of war stories, the lens is very wide.
    — Andy Hazel, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Modesto straight pride is a hot-button culture wars story, writ large.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Heat players tell war stories of wobbly knees.
    — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For sure, the former players had plenty of war stories to share.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
  • There are as many different kinds of war stories as there are people who have been called to fight.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Gary Gersh isn't the type to tell war stories about his three-decade music career.
    — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The war stories teachers swap about nightmare parents are the stuff of legend.
    — Sarah Chaves, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Neil will lead a bourbon tasting and share his personal war stories.
    — John S. Matuszak, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The first two of Jansson’s 12 Moomin books can be read as war stories.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Mentoring isn’t about sharing war stories, or telling people how to live their lives.
    — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The poet’s eternal job, assigned by the Greek gods, is to keep this war story alive.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
  • These anecdotes, such as a grandparent’s old war story, can help in the research process.
    — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But this was no war story; this was every filmmaker’s worst nightmare.
    — Meg James, Amy Kaufman and Julia Wick, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • In the decades since, those men have all died, leaving Schab alone with his war stories and his memories.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Their love in the face of war story is indeed moving, but a romance movie is only as good as the strength of its leads.
    — cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Welp, so much for my war story of being attacked in my driveway by the rabid raccoon nine years ago.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • This is a classic war story told simply and well, its meanings not forced but allowed to bubble up on their own.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Plus, history shows war stories tend to perform well at the Oscars.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Runners greet each other warmly and exchange war stories of past Barkleys.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 26 May 2018
  • Or, at least, the opportunity to hear some truly epic war stories.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Unlike some of my player/writer war stories, Mayfield’s was caught on tape.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2019
  • She is not cursed by a vengeful goddess or demoted to a supporting role in some hero’s war story.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The kinds of war stories that bring a little levity and light to the darkness are inspiring.
    — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • That war story became a crucial part of the company's culture.
    — Scott Andrew, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Sally pauses her work as Marty holds court, sharing war stories from his decades as a private eye.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For weeks prior, the looming event had played out in the national press as a hot-button culture wars story, writ large.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The book reads like an oral history, war stories of survival and pride, fear and desperation told around hot plates and night fires.
    — and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 30 July 2024

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