How to Use urban legend in a Sentence

urban legend

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  • The story stands among the great urban legends of L.A.’s gang world.
    — Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
  • As for the creek – no longer an urban legend – ideas abound.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021
  • Marine World seems to have a good half of the Bay Area’s best urban legends.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • That turns out to have been an urban legend: his voice was fine.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Payton to the Cowboys is the urban legend that won’t die.
    — Dallas News, 25 July 2022
  • There’s the urban legend that the night that Lindsey first went on the air there was a raging storm in the District.
    — Ericka Blount Danois, Essence, 26 June 2020
  • Those pieces may be true or may have as much truth as urban legends.
    — H. Colleen Sinclair, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The urban legend about how it was drawn to be a town without churches is true.
    — David Debolt, The Mercury News, 23 June 2019
  • What lurks in the middle of the night along the Mogollon Rim is the stuff of urban legend, folklore, myth and campfire tale.
    — The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This isn't the start of campfire ghost story or a creepy urban legend.
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The entire home run derby jinx is urban legend, with no facts to back it up.
    — Houston Mitchell, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • The entire Home Run Derby jinx is urban legend, with no facts to back it up.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • An urban legend about a girl in a communion dress brought to the big screen in this revenge thriller.
    — Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The Cassadaga Devil’s Chair is a bench made of bricks and the subject of urban legend.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2021
  • There are a bunch of popular urban legends linked to the sight, and all of them have to do with a creepy underpass bridge.
    — Ariel Nagi, Seventeen, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Listed below are a few of the dark tunnels and urban legends around Louisville.
    — Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The details surrounding the birds’ arrival to the U.S. have become a thing of urban legend.
    — Lauren Koenig, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Often, that refers to an urban legend that’s more fun to believe than to disprove with a phone call or two.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • According to Snopes, a site that fact checks and debunks urban legends, their first email in this vein dates back to 2001.
    — Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
  • For years an urban legend about a massive bomb shelter in the building swirled.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But the story of the Clotilda had become almost a myth, an urban legend.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Science is a vital check on these sorts of urban legends.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
  • That’s another urban legend about the dissension on the choice of song.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The horror of escaped asylum patients made its way through the 19th and 20th centuries in a slew of stories, films and urban legends.
    — Troy Rondinone, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2019
  • So does this mean that Freuchen's account is also an urban legend?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Neither are weird demands, like monochromatic M&Ms (look for the urban legend at the end).
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • But today, those urban legends are trying to sound a little more ripped-from-the-headlines.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Schwartz’s stories, culled from folklore and urban legend, are mostly just a page or two.
    — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Over the years, urban legends have swirled, suggesting that a horse really died during the shooting of that scene but each has been quickly debunked.
    — Simon Bland, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Many have speculated for years that Rakim ghostwrote his verses, but that urban legend was put to rest in a recent moment between the pair.
    — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 25 July 2024

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