Example sentences for: myth

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

  • That function is now provided by our daily papers, which offer a kind of ongoing myth, related to but not a literal rendering of any actual events, much as the Old Testament account of Noah's Ark may allude to an actual flood, but it doesn't really matter.

  • Yet, the myth of White House continuity keeps resurfacing--Jacqueline Kennedy's famous television tour doubtless played a role in establishing it.

  • The people are as varied as their landscape, but don’t let anyone tell you the French national cliché is a myth.

  • He acknowledges "where the sensitivity comes from," though he shows no understanding of the role the myth of the Antichrist played in the history of anti-Semitism, and he refuses to back away from his opinion that somewhere in Great Neck or West L.A. or Shaker Heights is living Satan's agent.

  • Andrew Gray's remarks on “nonsense about the German language” [XVIII, 1] reminded me of another myth widely held in the English-speaking world about German: it tends to have longer words than English does.


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