Example sentences for: legends

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

  • His was, as he saw it, a continuous poetic journey, aided here and there by slaves or muses--Arthur Symons, the symbolist who introduced him to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé in the 1890s; Maud Gonne, who made Irish nationalism romantic; Lady Augusta Gregory, an Irish Protestant aristocrat who collaborated with Yeats in his search of old Irish folklore and legends; and Ezra Pound, who stiffened Yeats' soft "Celtic" verse with a little modernist geometry.

  • The numbers of replicates per treatment group and independent experiments associated with specific studies are provided in the figures or accompanying legends.

  • In theory, the Web should be as good at eradicating legends as it is at cultivating them, but in practice, denials are quickly buried by new messages and updates.

  • Various legends were invented to account for them; for example, the name of the Capitoline Hill (from which capitol comes) was said to be derived from a human head ( caput ) found on it when the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus was being built.

  • King, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and other R & B legends can't keep reviewers from complaining that the movie feels like a retread of the original Blues Brothers flick--a blues band traveling cross-country, chased both by police and bad guys.


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