How to Use legend in a Sentence

legend

noun
  • He has become a baseball legend.
  • I don't believe the legends I've heard about this forest.
  • The best are legends in the hood, with street names like Twin and Taco.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
  • Among those on the list is baseball legend Hank Aaron, who died at the age of 86.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The legend of the bean pie man selling health and wisdom lives on.
    — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
  • And a new class of music legends will enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Thanks to her recordings and this show, her legend will live on.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • The story is a legend about a little girl who has lost her best friend to the Elves.
    — Vogue, 30 May 2022
  • Wendy Williams is a legend and an icon in our business.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
  • Old cities are built on myths and legends, and Richmond has many.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • In the business of biopics, what becomes a legend most?
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
  • This could explain the origin of the Apache legend that these mountains are the home of the thunder gods.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The Columbus legend needs to be dismissed once and for all.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The framework of the legend of Troy rests on, and is brought to completion by, the rape of women.
    — Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
  • The footlong was once five dollars, or so the legend goes.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 June 2024
  • And so legend suggests this is a dragon taking a bite out of the sun.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Trust a legend like Williams to be the first person to capture Princess Kate on Snapchat.
    — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
  • One play will revisit a legend of the 1600s – guess who.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Can than the Mac couldn’t avoid paying homage to the rock legend during a show on the day of her passing.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Guests such as Rogen, Chu and the Daniels took in the exhibit and stopped to talk with the legend in the middle of this shine.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
  • The way this room is embracing the legends tonight is touching.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • To have this living legend work with us was like a badge of honor.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In the world of basketball, Sue Bird is a legend and household name.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The legend shows what the colors mean, with green being the best air quality and purple the worst.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • For shoppers of a certain age, David Welch, 52, is a legend.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
  • Joni Mitchell is a legend and has nothing left to prove at this point in her career.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And with that, the former talk show host and media legend glided onto the stage.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But El Abayarde was a game-changer that set him apart as a legend.
    — Amanda Alcántara, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The perfect send off to the man, the myth, the legend: This content is imported from twitter.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The map legend now more clearly says where things like anomalies and bosses are.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025

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