How to Use myth in a Sentence

myth

noun

• I don't believe the myths and legends about this forest.
• Contrary to popular myth, no monster lives in this lake.
• It's an enduring myth that money brings happiness.
• Read on to see what some of the sleep myths are, and the truth about them.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 24 July 2019
• Check out the slideshow above for the dumbest car myths.
  — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2024
• The notion that wolves howl at the moon is a myth, though.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
• Even as a heap of rot, Nana is Venus, a stream of gold, a myth.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• The real source of the myth seems to have come much later.
  — Katherine Foxhall, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
• There's this Greek myth about Eos, the goddess of dawn.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022
• The truths and myths that abound about the balls, paddles and shots come down to physics, of course.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
• Since the Mao era, the CCP has used myths to explain the recent past.
  — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
• The myth, the appetizer, the drink garnish, the shades of green.
  — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2023
• The class dispels the myths that such records don’t exist.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
• There’s so little in the way of magic and myth these days.
  — Joshua David Stein, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2019
• This is a myth that has been debunked time and time again.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 18 Mar. 2020
• The show also makes an effort to bust the myth of the glamorous con.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2023
• The man, the myth, the legend is stepping away from soccer.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• The urban myth is that brown sugar is mixed with the beef in the burger.
  — Dan Kadar, The Enquirer, 13 Jan. 2022
• The two will now try their hands at full-time myth-busting.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2017
• Some of the half-truths and Philly myths are pretty creative.
  — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• It’s a myth spread by dog owners that cats are cold and aloof.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
• The myth is that this bill is going to fix that problem. ...
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2022
• The myths that helped us unite as a nation began to fray.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Sep. 2017
• As the years went on and his fortune grew, so did the myth of John Donovan.
  — Ian Frisch, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
• When held up to the light of truth, this myth loses its luster.
  — Jacqueline Pata, SELF, 7 Oct. 2017
• Facts about his life were initially hard to come by, and myth rushed in to fill the void.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Still, there’s one myth about credit that won’t seem to go away.
  — Holly Johnson, CNN Underscored, 19 Mar. 2021
• Between the lines: There are myths about how to conceive a girl or a boy.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, Axios, 8 July 2024
• But the point is that for so many of us, Jimmy was a sort of a central hero, like a heroic figure in some Greek myth.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2024
• Chicano activists cited the myth in the 1960s to declare the American Southwest their birthright.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024