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.
• Among those on the list is baseball legend Hank Aaron, who died at the age of 86.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• The legend of the bean pie man selling health and wisdom lives on.
  — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
• 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
• In the business of biopics, what becomes a legend most?
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Trust a legend like Williams to be the first person to capture Princess Kate on Snapchat.
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
• One play will revisit a legend of the 1600s – guess who.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
• Can than the Mac couldn’t avoid paying homage to the rock legend during a show on the day of her passing.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
• The way this room is embracing the legends tonight is touching.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 Feb. 2024
• To have this living legend work with us was like a badge of honor.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
• 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
• But El Abayarde was a game-changer that set him apart as a legend.
  — Amanda Alcántara, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2022
• 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
• According to a local legend, the masks and black faces with soot helped to scare away the Turks in the 16th century.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
• It is now listed in the state registry as a living legend.
  — Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
• 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
• And these sometimes took a turn into the magical, proposing that, like Arthur in many legends, the President was still alive, preparing for a triumphant return.
  — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 10 Mar. 2025