How to Use folk hero in a Sentence

folk hero

noun

• The life of a right-wing folk hero can be a busy (and profitable) one.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Goetz became a folk hero in a city dealing with sky-high crime.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Rachel Hatzipanagos and Ian Duncan, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
• As a cult artist of the ’90s and beyond with an Americana bent, Case kind of became a folk hero in both senses of the term.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 May 2023
• At the heart of that contradiction is his status as folk hero.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• Bryson Barnes was already something of a Utah football folk hero.
  — Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• By then, Michael was already well on his way to becoming, for some, a local folk hero.
  — Molly Langmuir, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2024
• And don’t forget — he was cheered as a folk hero by people on the streets of Rostov-on-Don, which may inflate his ego further.
  — NBC News, 25 June 2023
• Most Republicans, however, praised Vance as a folk hero and a bridge to the post-Trump future of the party.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 17 July 2024
• Bryson Barnes, a Utah folk hero of sorts, also remains in the quarterback room — and Whittingham has relied on him in the past in big games.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
• In his five years locked up, his folk hero stature has only solidified.
  — Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• Dillinger was the archetype of a peculiarly American folk hero: An outlaw famed for his or her crimes.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2024
• For a folk hero whose story is seldom told in 21st-century pop culture, William Tell was surely blessed with a great name.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
• Kate Middleton, regardless of her health and status, is no folk hero.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024
• DiMaggio, a center fielder known as the Yankee Clipper, remains a folk hero.
  — Frederic J. Frommer, Kansas City Star, 18 Feb. 2024
• There was once a time when a host who had returned without writers in the midst of a strike, citing concern for the rest of the show’s staff, could be forgiven, even treated like a folk hero.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Overnight, the shop’s owner became a folk hero for a community that has felt beaten down and frightened amid a surge in overt antisemitism.
  — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• But his audacious plan to tag up an entire 10-car subway train — widely acknowledged as one of the first to ever try it — would make his career as a hip-hop folk hero.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Gypsy Rose Blanchard is far from the first criminal, alleged or otherwise, to be valorized as a folk hero on the internet.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2024
• One of their organizers, White Gladis, became an internet folk hero with her actions off the Iberian coast.
  — Madeline Ashby, WIRED, 17 July 2023
• Bushnell’s fatal protest turned him into an instant folk hero among some anti-war and pro-Palestinian activists.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
• And Maggie's dog Bubba, who helped prosecutors prove Alex was actually at the crime scene, has become a local folk hero.
  — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
• The upcoming series is an anthology exploring the wild and highly unique life of Lee Ralph, a former pro skateboarder turned folk hero and recluse.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
• Back home, Guzmán was often viewed as folk hero: a rags-to-riches country kid from the Sinaloa sierra known for his generosity with locals and his keen ability to evade authorities.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• Yay, meme-stock speculators!), but Dano is perfectly cast as the basement investor/everyman/folk hero Keith Gill, a.k.a.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
• With all the media attention, 841 has become something of a furry folk hero, inspiring meme accounts and plenty of online otter nonsense.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• The renegade became a folk hero to the borderlands, inspiring several corridos.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• In this essay, Remnick follows another kind of New Yorker prototype, profiling a Manhattan folk hero who has spent his life in service to an obsession.
  — John Lingan, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• While one of her brothers completed the script, Udaka created a mask for the main character, a folk hero who starved to death while cultivating barley for future generations, imbuing it with the features of their late father.
  — Hannah Kirshner Bon Duke, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024