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Meanings of urban legend in English
Synonyms
Examples for "urban myth"
Examples for "urban myth"
1
The question has always been: is this anything more than urban myth?
2
He stared at it disbelievingly; he'd always thought that was an urban myth.
3
What Cruikshank stumbled onto is far worse than any urban myth.
4
No, that's just an urban myth lifted from some cheesy bestseller.
5
I know, I know: most probably it's an urban myth.
1
It's an urban tale that middle school students can relate to; adults as well.
2
It is a sharper, more modern, present-tense urban tale.
3
Urban tales of every hue are on offer from the We Are Here mini-fest organised by the Project Arts Centre and Dublin Docklands Development Authority.
1
Contemporary legends also say that the only copy was taken by an Englishman hundreds of years ago.
Usage of urban legend in English
1
People just bursting into flames for no reason: it's an urban legend.
2
Officially opened 40 years ago, it is the stuff of urban legend.
3
Snuff films are something you read or hear about, urban legend stuff.
4
And just like that, dear God, an urban legend had been born!
5
Dr Babineau says that's ridiculous, the hospital equivalent of an urban legend.
6
Knights and demons were the stuff of urban legend and radical religions.
7
But my efforts are doomed within the self-affirming structure of the urban legend.
8
Unlike the growing urban legend of Slenderman, Dogman appears to be mostly harmless.
9
Rashan had become more an urban legend than a wanted criminal.
10
Is it just an urban legend that the first basilisk destroyed its creator?
11
They couldn't decide if you were real or an urban legend.
12
One urban legend says Stinger anti-aircraft missiles are supposedly perched on the roof.
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Until now, that part has been pretty much an urban legend.
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The stories of what happens inside have become the stuff of urban legend.
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Maybe it's an urban legend, or a cold war myth.
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In short, Slenderman has become firmly entrenched in urban legend.
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Translations for urban legend
Urban legend through the time
Urban legend across language varieties
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