How to Use urban legend in a Sentence

urban legend

noun

• 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
• 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
• There is an urban legend that the building's tower and orb were once used as a port for a dirigible.
  — Janelle James, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2021
• The urban legend that frequent cuts make hair grow faster is simply untrue.
  — Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire, 22 Oct. 2021
• The common urban legend is that a father killed his whole family and himself on Christmas Eve in the 1950s.
  — Alex Hawgood, New York Times, 19 May 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024