Example sentences for: myths

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

  • Myths of History

  • In fact, corn came to symbolize life for the Maya — in their myths of creation, mankind was formed from lumps of maize dough.

  • At times his "pride and petulance" became intolerable, writes classicist Robert Graves in The Greek Myths . In Mythology , Edith Hamilton writes, "He is represented as falling in love with one woman after another and descending to all manner of tricks to hide his infidelity from his wife."

  • In the late 19 th century, Serbian nationalists had built up national myths about the heroics of Prince Lazar and cast Kosovo's status as a Jerusalem-like holy land populated with Orthodox religious shrines.

  • The entire town seems to have been laid out according to the cosmologies of the Greek myths.


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