Example sentences for: myth

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

  • Walking towards Syntagma you’ll pass the Renaissance-style house of Heinrich Schliemann, that most famous of archaeologists, who was instrumental in turning the myth of the Mycenaeans and the Trojan War into fact.

  • Newsweek 's "The Myth of Quality Time" says that kids need more sustained, structured attention than workaholic parents give them.

  • Even the bright young men who imitate Pynchon by fortifying their fashionably fractured stories with math and science, myth and metafiction, can't really hold a candle to the master.

  • Beautifully acted, beautifully scored, and most beautifully shot, it gives a self-conscious nod to mob-movie romanticism without gutting the myth a la Scorsese's 1990 gangster hit, Goodfellas . (It also provides the best role Gabriel Byrne is ever likely to get: half Richard Burton, half Al Pacino)

  • Wang's famous painting of the Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains (1366) explodes the myth of the artist's peaceful retreat in the hills.


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