legend

In a sentence

Six example sentences with legend, each labelled with its topic.

• Every retelling of the local legend adds another detail, until the river spirit acquires a name and a grudge.

  Literature

• Guides in the mountain village repeat a legend about a stone giant who guards the pass during winter storms.

  Travel

• The quest chain slowly proves the village legend true, and the drowned king rises exactly where the songs promised.

  Gaming

• The film retells a Welsh legend about a lake maiden who returns to the water when her farmer husband breaks a promise.

  Movies

• The tapestry shows a legend of the city's founding, with a wolf leading two lost children to the river bank.

  Art

• The ballad preserves a legend about a fiddler who played for the fairies and came home a hundred years later.

  Music

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains legend. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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