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Example sentences for legend
Over the years, other publications picked up the story, helping perpetuate the legend about the stone.
It was here, according to legend, that the story had begun.
But the evidential value of the legend was almost none.
While his books don't come with much scholarly apparatus, they have made him something of a legend among folklorists.
The engineers were successful, transforming a potential disaster into a legend of effective teamwork.
Legend has it that the student's voice didn't recover for days.
He later blossoms into legend with the prize-winning fiction that gives the world the term cyberspace.
Shagbark hickory syrup was the stuff of family legend.
When one legend writes about another, the result is bound to be explosive.
Web sites, meanwhile, were spreading the legend far beyond its traditional word-of-mouth audience.
Thoughts and illustrations from the head of a science legend.
It repeated as fact a legend about the origin of the name that is both outlandish and insulting.
Your name would become legend and in all likelihood word would spread of your horrible conduct beyond the university borders.
To sled dog mushers, he is a mini legend that simply needs no introduction.
Fifth-hand rumors of the urban-legend variety swirl around him.
But this summer's films appear to be interested in an even tighter braiding of comic-book-ish legend and our national mythos.
But then, there is this legend about how the first two brothers didn't get along and one killed the other.
Legend has it that they observed an unofficial ceasefire while underground.
He knows what becomes a legend most: the one who hauls the legend in.
It must have been a variant of the same urban legend.
It has become a legend, and few informed visitors with distinguished palates miss it.
Legend had it that he knew every state party chairman in the country.
Marines are the bravest of the brave or so their legend has it.
Rabies: a possible explanation for the vampire legend.
Fifty years later, it still does, even though the charge that the building upstages the art has become part of its legend.
What happened before that time was a matter of legend and speculation.
In this case, though, the reality is more interesting than the legend.
Serious historians may try to find the truth behind the legend.
But the legend of the musk strawberry persisted among a few scientists and fruit connoisseurs.
The message was left shortly after last week's spring equinox, when this legend gets attention.
The outfit made him a legend in some eyes and a laughingstock in others.
According to urban legend, air pollution enhances the beauty of a sunset.
Movies moved dinosaurs from the realm of science to that of legend, with art somewhere in the middle.
If given a choice, you'd probably want to be the guy after the guy who follows the legend.
Of course, when the city shut the place down it became even more of a legend.
The legend sung in this carol probably dates from the fourteenth century.
Some versions of the legend say that he departed across the ocean, promising to return.
Legend has it that such birds were once tried as the spirit-partners of witches.
Find a legend written about one of the constellations that is visible and read it while you are viewing the constellation.
The ultimate suburban legend is that where you go to college determines your success in life.
In the absence of facts, a body of legend has grown, punctuated by secondhand and thirdhand accounts of varying accuracy.
May your wines be good, your legend lasting, and all alligators absent.
The so-called superstar effect was strongest among the top-ranked players who were directly competing against the golf legend.
It's not every day you get to chat with a real live rock legend-so let's get to it.
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