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legendary English

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What does legendary mean?

legendary

so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers (= fabled) celebrated in fable or legend the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox legendary exploits of Jesse James

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Simple sentences

A linguistics student swallowed her own tongue after attempting the legendary glottal approximant.
Tom is legendary.
Legendary American singer Lou Reed has died at the age of seventy-one.
Tom traveled on the legendary Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul.
The philosopher's stone was a legendary substance capable of turning base metals into gold.
A 13-year-old boy has discovered a treasure which may have belonged to to the legendary Danish king Harald Bluetooth.

Movie subtitles

You may have heard of the legendary Leclerc, hero of World War II.
But I see at a great distance a new world stirring in the ruins stirring clumsily but in hopefulness seeking its lost and legendary treasures and they will all be here, my son.
Is it the old legendary monster of my father's time. or am I supposed to have whipped one up. as a housewife whips up an omelette?
NARRATOR: Legendary was the Xanadu where Kubla Khan decreed his stately pleasure dome.
Today, almost as legendary, is Florida's Xanadu the world's largest private pleasure ground.
You're fast becoming a legendary figure.
Her back's tattooed with a legendary woman.
But to kill Don Juan would make a martyr of him and we would not care to enhance his already legendary reputation.
Even the formidable Noriyasu has no power against these legendary fortifications.
Rokurota Makabe is a legendary Akizuki samurai general.
Four students await together, like brothers, a legendary death.
Yes, that the hound was a real dog. and not just a legendary myth.
You are the gaucho, the legendary uncle.
Like the hero of a legendary romance, he suddenly had a dark foreboding.
If he had succeeded tonight the blame would have fallen on the legendary monster. and no possible suspicion would have been attached to him.
Legendary was the Xanadu where Kubla Khan decreed his stately pleasure dome.
In this legendary, historical heaven of yours.
Just last night, this old man pretended to be a legendary hero.
The legendary Alp-hi!
His name, remain legendary, among the largest leaders in history.
So that's the fabulous, legendary, irresistible Alain Leroy.
In time, some legendary tycoon may be able to persuade me to part with it.
Even the facial markings are described, although he thought they were legendary.
I guess I mean the legendary sort of doctor.
The legendary witch that rides on the imaginary broom?
So that's the fabulous legendary, irresistible Alain Leroy.
I can imagine my legendary win.
It will be a hero's legendary death!
That was one of the legendary monsters of my people.
Legendary.
With his little finger he can split a beam 8 inches thick while wearing the smile of the legendary Madam Butterfly!
The legendary Baron Samedi, folks.
He was a legendary German magician.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great privilege to introduce to you, in his extended season here at the Palace, the first of two appearances tonight - someone whose legendary legerdemain has entranced and entertained all the crowned heads of Europe.

News and current affairs

India's infrastructure problems are legendary, with airports and railroads that are comically inadequate.
The stock market's performance is legendary, with capital gains totaling 7 trillion dollars since the start of 1996.
The UMP is the political heir of Gaullism, but its ideological inconsistency is legendary - and reflected in party name changes every eight to ten years.
Together with Dr. Paul Farmer, the legendary AIDS doctor in Haiti, I visited villages in Haiti's Central Plateau, asking people about their views of politics and Aristide.
As heir to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the legendary democratic leader who was hanged by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's government in 1979, Benazir emerged as a symbol of resistance at a young age - but languished in jails and exile in the 1980's.
The same goes for the legendary Che.
The sad paradox is that while the world had been learning of and celebrating his legendary kindness as a person, he will now be distinguished for all time by an act of aggression.
Even legendary investors like Warren Buffett, it is argued, are not really outperforming the market.
Evsey Domar, a legendary growth economist (and one of my MIT professors) counseled that the problem of alleviating the debt burden is essentially a problem of achieving growth in national income.
All those days spent in secret conclave in Basel, drinking through the BIS's legendary wine cellar, have apparently led to no consensus.
The well of money may be running dry, and so, too, may be America's legendary optimism and hope.
Inefficiency in agriculture, retail, and government are legendary.
The legendary General Moshe Dayan, who was born in a socialist Kibbutz on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, was no less a skeptic about the chances of coexisting with the Arabs.
Wilbur Ross, a legendary investor with great experience in the financial services sector, nicely articulated the informed private-sector view on this issue.
Zuma is legendary for his ability to connect with ordinary people.
When Pinkhas Sapir, Prime Minister Golda Meir's legendary finance minister died, all that he owned was a modest apartment in Tel Aviv and some small savings.
According to the Coldwell Banker Home Price Comparison Index, which compares the price of a standard 2,200 square-foot four-bedroom house across cities, the most expensive city in the US is Beverly Hills (the legendary home of movie stars).
Merkel's now legendary obstinacy eventually might have to succumb to the imperatives of politics.

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