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Meanings of urban myth in English
Synonyms
Examples for "urban legend"
Examples for "urban legend"
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.
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 myth in English
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.
6
This story has been widely discredited as an urban myth.
7
He looks like a motorcyclist come back from the grave in an urban myth.
8
Perhaps now you will believe us and bury this urban myth once and for all.
9
Dr Bloomfield said it could be an urban myth.
10
Still, criminal use of Bluetooth scanners has been dismissed by some as an urban myth.
11
The false report lived on as an urban myth.
12
Chris Hipkins said it was an urban myth.
13
It's just an urban myth that she was buried under a platform at King's Cross station.'
14
Anyway, isn't that stuff all an urban myth?
15
UPDATE: According to folks in the comments, "Store High in Transit" is an urban myth.
16
You really think there's something wrong with the place, or is this some new kind of urban myth?'
This collocation consists of:
Translations for urban myth
Urban myth through the time
Urban myth across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common