Example sentences for: folklorist

How can you use “folklorist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Because of its long history New Mexico will always be a bountiful reservoir for the serious folklorist.

  • Urban folk legends are invariably ascribed to a "friend" or, better still, a "friend of a friend" (a "FOAF," to use folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand's acronym), who is close enough to stabilize the urban legend but distant enough to escape genuine scrutiny.

  • Born in northern New Mexico on May 16, 1894 (although some sources give her birth date as 1898), Fabiola Cabeza de Baca became a famous home economist, teacher, folklorist, and writer.

  • In discussing Hispano folklore, Aurelio M. Espinosa, the foremost Mexican American folklorist of the early twentieth century, delineated three generations of Hispanics in California.

  • According to the description on the book's cover, Gene Bluestein is a musician, folklorist, and literary critic who teaches English at California State University at Fresno.


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