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legend

A legend is a story that has been passed down through the years, with no certain starting point, that is part of the history of a place. A legend is a small bit of truth that has been made to look better than it actually is. A legend is a person who has done an amazing accomplishment. A legend is a key to the symbols drawn on a map.

legend

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events (= caption) brief description accompanying an illustration

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Simple sentences

That story is household legend.
The legend has come down in this district from olden times.
The legend gave the name to the place.
The legend says that she was a mermaid.
The legend says he received his sword from the hands of the gods themselves.
There is a mysterious legend surrounding this lake.
Tom is a legend.
You are a living legend.
According to legend, the French composer Alkan was killed by a collapsing bookcase when he tried to reach for the Talmud, a holy Jewish book, in the study in his house.
Tom is a living legend.
Isn't that just an urban legend?
We are familiar with the legend of Robin Hood.
A mysterious legend has been handed down about this lake.
President Kennedy was killed, but his legend will live on forever.
According to one legend, it gets its name from a priest.
The legend says he was invulnerable.
According to legend, those woods used to be haunted, so people would avoid entering.
He's a true legend.
There could be a kernel of truth behind this legend.
This man is a legend.

Movie subtitles

Ensanguined national assets of the country, buried treasures sealed by a mystery and shrouded in legend lay in the Ukrainian land for ages.
Knowing a vampire must rest by day in his native soil, I am convinced that this Dracula is no legend. but an undead creature whose life has been unnaturally prolonged.
Dracula's name is associated with a legend still told among his fellow countrymen.
The legend tells of an ancient family that disappeared over five centuries ago and was said to be made up of vampires.
If you're right about the legend, then this casket may contain the Scroll of Thoth from the holy of holies in the temple. And I can hardly wait to get back to find out.
Well, every legend has a basis of truth.
Well, I seem to remember an old Hungarian legend that a vampire casts no reflection in a mirror.
There's a legend, you know.
On legend founded.
A legend about a sorcerer who had an apprentice.
This is the Land of Legend. where everything is possible when seen through the eyes of youth.
A legend?
A legend is something that can change itself over into a red fox when it wants to.
Famed in American legend is the origin of the Kane fortune.
And knowing that a vampire must rest by day in his native soil, I am convinced that this Dracula is no legend but an undead creature whose life has been unnaturally prolonged.
Oh it's not that ridiculous hound legend?
Well, now we know for certain this is no legend.
In tracing back his lineage. He discovered not only that he was the next of kin. But also learned of that old legend about the hound.
It's a very old story, one that goes back almost 2,000 years. A legend about a sorcerer who had an apprentice.
And this is how was started the legend of the Countess of New Orleans. who disappeared a century ago.
Really, this curious legend that I am difficult is pure fabrication.
Not the legend of their nobility, but the fable of their hidden wealth.
Those who escaped, the wicked ones. their legend haunts the village where I was born.
There is a legend he can drink two bottles of whisky without getting drunk.
There is also a legend that he killed prisoners by tying them together in pairs and throwing them in the river to save food and ammunition. But I don't believe it.
You live right here in Tarrytown and don't know the legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Gives your saintly legend rather a black eye, doesn't it?
Time cannot change its impassive face. nor dim the legend of the wild young lovers. who found heaven and hell in the shadows of the rock.
That is the true meaning of the legend of Saint George.
The legend of Orpheus is well-known.
A legend is entitled to be beyond time and place.
He was tracking down some queer legend about a diamond mine far into the interior.
I have a legend to live up to.

News and current affairs

Little Swan sells washing machines in 40 countries, while Legend Group is now the world's largest manufacturer of personal computers (mostly sold under other brand names).
Certainly, the US government's symbolic punishment of chess legend Bobby Fischer (for playing a match in Belgrade that violated sanctions) provided no relief for the besieged city of Sarajevo.
India is a land where history, myth, and legend often overlap; sometimes Indians cannot tell the difference.
Shrouded in secrecy and legend, the Nobel Prize first became an object for serious scholarly study after 1976, when the Nobel Foundation opened its archives.
According to legend, Mori instructed each of his three sons to snap an arrow in half.
An archetype feeding the legend?
So the legend lives on.
MOSCOW - Germany's ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is a legend in Russia.
Part of the legend is almost invariably the mystery surrounding the circumstances of the leader's death.

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