urban legend

variants also urban myth

Examples of urban legend in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web John Hsu To avoid getting kicked out of the underworld, a ghost joins a small haunting talent agency and sets out to become the scariest urban legend of them all. Jack Dunn, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024 Advertisement These stories have all the earmarks of urban legends .... Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024 Starring Virginia Madsen as a graduate student studying urban legend, this emotionally fraught ghost story uses the Cabrini-Green housing projects of Chicago to examine Black marginalization, the cycle of violence, and racial identity as portrayed through the lens of the white savior complex. Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024 Many have speculated for years that Rakim ghostwrote his verses, but that urban legend was put to rest in a recent moment between the pair. Angel Diaz, Billboard, 25 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for urban legend 

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“Urban legend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20legend. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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