How to Use urban legend in a Sentence

urban legend

noun
  • Those pieces may be true or may have as much truth as urban legends.
    — H. Colleen Sinclair, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The urban legend about how it was drawn to be a town without churches is true.
    — David Debolt, The Mercury News, 23 June 2019
  • The entire home run derby jinx is urban legend, with no facts to back it up.
    — Houston Mitchell, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • This isn't the start of campfire ghost story or a creepy urban legend.
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • For years an urban legend about a massive bomb shelter in the building swirled.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The urban legend that frequent cuts make hair grow faster is simply untrue.
    — Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire, 6 May 2020
  • An urban legend about a girl in a communion dress brought to the big screen in this revenge thriller.
    — Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • This cruel retelling became an urban legend, believed by many to be fact.
    — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Feb. 2018
  • So does this mean that Freuchen's account is also an urban legend?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Schwartz’s stories, culled from folklore and urban legend, are mostly just a page or two.
    — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Often, that refers to an urban legend that’s more fun to believe than to disprove with a phone call or two.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Listed below are a few of the dark tunnels and urban legends around Louisville.
    — Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Twelve years later, those memories sharing the floor can feel more like urban legend.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But some experts argue that the story is a culinary urban legend.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The weight of capturing this dance — this sort of urban legend that had happened only a few times — was great.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Marine World seems to have a good half of the Bay Area’s best urban legends.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But today, those urban legends are trying to sound a little more ripped-from-the-headlines.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 28 Oct. 2017
  • There are a bunch of popular urban legends linked to the sight, and all of them have to do with a creepy underpass bridge.
    — Ariel Nagi, Seventeen, 29 Aug. 2017
  • That’s another urban legend about the dissension on the choice of song.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 Feb. 2022
  • There is an urban legend that the building's tower and orb were once used as a port for a dirigible.
    — Janelle James, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2021
  • Most of this is likely just urban legend, albeit one that’s persisted for decades and proves fun to recount.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2021
  • But the story of the Clotilda had become almost a myth, an urban legend.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The entire Home Run Derby jinx is urban legend, with no facts to back it up.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • There’s the urban legend that the night that Lindsey first went on the air there was a raging storm in the District.
    — Ericka Blount Danois, Essence, 26 June 2020
  • There is also a long-standing urban legend about the city of Hollywood getting its name from these plants.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Theories as to what happened became the stuff of urban legend and online chatter.
    — David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But the reason for that light malfunction is at the center of a salacious, widespread urban legend that’s been passed around by sports fans for decades.
    — Joe Delessio, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Alligators in the sewers have been an urban legend since my great-grandmother took the train to Ft.
    — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2019
  • What lurks in the middle of the night along the Mogollon Rim is the stuff of urban legend, folklore, myth and campfire tale.
    — The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Neither are weird demands, like monochromatic M&Ms (look for the urban legend at the end).
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 21 Feb. 2018

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