Below you will find example sentences with "short story". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Short Story in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: short
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "short story" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 27.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a sad short story until the, academy arts short story contest, award, best and published stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with short term, horror story, short films, short percent, short film and short stories, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with short story
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The opening of " Knock " is a complete two-sentence short-short story in itself. (14 words)
He has written several short plays and is two-time winner of the Academy Arts Short Story Contest. (18 words)
He has since remained at short prose genre, and is today considered one of Norwegian literature's finest short story writers. (21 words)
During Khrushchev's tenure, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was studied in schools in the Soviet Union, as were three more short works of Solzhenitsyn's, including his acclaimed short story Matryona's Home, published in 1963. (40 words)
Based on Ted Chiang's short story "Story of Your Life", Denis Villeneuve's Arrival follows Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguist brought in to establish a line of communication with an alien species that have recently landed on Earth. (40 words)
The song plays out like a sad short story until the final verse, when the narrator (whom we can assume is a stand-in for Dylan) enters to draw parallels between that story and his own missed romantic opportunity. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
They said the movie is an adaptation of the short story and also a sequel to the short story all-in-one.
Her best-known short story, "Big Blonde", published in The Bookman magazine, was awarded the O. Henry Award as the best short story of 1929.
The poet, writer and occasional broadcaster Marie MacSweeney has received the Francis MacManus Short Story Award for her short story "Dipping into the Darkness".
Offering a somewhat revised iteration of ’s famous short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow may be short on scares, but it makes up for that in other ways.
Colin Walsh’s short stories have won several awards including the RTE Francis MacManus Short Story Prize and the Hennessy Literary Award.
He has written several short plays and is two-time winner of the Academy Arts Short Story Contest.
Her work has been short-listed for the Derringer Award and the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime Short Story, which she won in 2021 and 2024.
The play is produced with an ensemble cast and is a series of short vignettes similar to a short story collection on romance.
Awards Blaylock's short story "Thirteen Phantasms" won the 1997 World Fantasy Award for best Short Fiction. citation "Paper Dragons" won the award in 1986.
During Khrushchev's tenure, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was studied in schools in the Soviet Union, as were three more short works of Solzhenitsyn's, including his acclaimed short story Matryona's Home, published in 1963.
Each short story in the anthology is set on the Dying Earth, and concludes with a short acknowledgement by the author of Vance's influence on them.
He has since remained at short prose genre, and is today considered one of Norwegian literature's finest short story writers.
In 2014, Subterranean Press published The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison, collecting twenty-three of Ellison's Nebula, Hugo, Bram Stoker, Edgar, Best American Short Story and Locus-Award winning short fiction.
Short stories Sturgeon published numerous short story collections during his lifetime, many drawing on his most prolific writing years of the 1940s and 1950s.
The opening of " Knock " is a complete two-sentence short-short story in itself.
They vary from short story collection to fix-up (novel created from older short stories) perhaps all the way to novel.
Usually a short story focuses on one incident; has a single plot, a single setting, and a small number of characters; and covers a short period of time.
Based on Ted Chiang's short story "Story of Your Life", Denis Villeneuve's Arrival follows Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguist brought in to establish a line of communication with an alien species that have recently landed on Earth.
The song plays out like a sad short story until the final verse, when the narrator (whom we can assume is a stand-in for Dylan) enters to draw parallels between that story and his own missed romantic opportunity.
While this particular short story has yet to confirm when it will be made available officially in North America, spoilers are flying fast and furious on the internet as Titan fans diagnose the story beats of Bad Boy.