How to Use legend in a Sentence

legend

noun
  • He has become a baseball legend.
  • I don't believe the legends I've heard about this forest.
  • Thanks to her recordings and this show, her legend will live on.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Old cities are built on myths and legends, and Richmond has many.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • This could explain the origin of the Apache legend that these mountains are the home of the thunder gods.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The footlong was once five dollars, or so the legend goes.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 June 2024
  • And so legend suggests this is a dragon taking a bite out of the sun.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The way this room is embracing the legends tonight is touching.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The legend shows what the colors mean, with green being the best air quality and purple the worst.
    Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Joni Mitchell is a legend and has nothing left to prove at this point in her career.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And with that, the former talk show host and media legend glided onto the stage.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The perfect send off to the man, the myth, the legend: This content is imported from twitter.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
  • When the Colts first traded a third-round pick for Falcons legend Matt Ryan, the plan was to hand him the keys to the team’s offense for the next two years.
    The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Wallen has now pushed past all of those legends, at least for the time being—and his new record may not be matched for quite some time.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Like many of the other performances on this list, when the legend is better than the truth, ham it up.
    Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 20 May 2024
  • He was sentenced to life in prison—according to legend, on the day of the summer solstice of 1633.
    Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 19 June 2023
  • The force has become a kind of religious legend that spans through all these movies.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
  • It was getting thrown in the deep end, but having this legend as your life jacket.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Who knew a Le Mans legend could be had for less than seven figures?
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
  • San Diegans get two chances to see and hear the musical legend.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • And while some of them are legends in their own right, none have won a title in a third division at Grundy.
    Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • Fortunately, the acting legend doesn’t have to go far to do that.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The song’s been covered by, among others, the goth legends Scott Walker and Depeche Mode.
    Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • The country legend died a little more than four months later, on Feb. 5.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 12 July 2024
  • In another legend, an opossum steals mezcal from a gang of demons and gifts it to mankind.
    Tucker Harris, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • At just 25 years old, Tupac Shakur was well on his way to becoming a hip-hop legend.
    Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • And the 42-year-old music legend was rocking a killer bra top that showed off her totally epic abs.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 6 June 2023
  • By our count, that’s four birthday parties this year, which is befitting of the legend.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The late music legend Quincy Jones achieved a long list of accomplishments in his lifetime.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • What followed over the course of the next few months is now the stuff of internet legend: Musk would go on to cut a deal to acquire all of Twitter for $44 billion, before trying to back out of the deal, and then finally following through.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2024

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