whole story

noun

: all the facts : everything

They failed to tell us the whole story.

Examples of whole story in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sotheby’s has brought major collections such as the Honresfield Library to market, and now the Nelson archive, asking buyers to take the whole story rather than cherry-pick a trophy letter. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

At Saint Laurent on Tuesday night, gold was almost the whole story. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

None of this surprises labor economist Michael Rosenbaum, who said the popular narrative is that AI is replacing workers, but that isn’t the whole story. — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026

If a meaningful share of a vitamin, mineral or other active compound is lost before it’s absorbed, cost per kilogram included isn’t the whole story. — Aidan Connolly, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for whole story

• allegory
• amatory
• auditory
• category
• clerestory
• crematory
• desultory
• dilatory
• dormitory
• excretory
• feudatory
• gustatory