How to Use myth in a Sentence

myth

noun
  • I don't believe the myths and legends about this forest.
  • Contrary to popular myth, no monster lives in this lake.
  • It's an enduring myth that money brings happiness.
  • Gewirtz debunks this myth and shows us how China came to convince the world of it.
    Chang Che, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
  • As the years went on and his fortune grew, so did the myth of John Donovan.
    Ian Frisch, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Their lives are about attention to unglamorous details, not bravado and myth.
    Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Jemisin molds real world events from the past few years with magic and myth into this fantastical page-turner.
    Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Frida’s life was marked by contradictions, struggles, affairs and myths.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Martinez believes Cleopatra may have chosen to bury her husband in the temple to reflect this myth.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • New England’s defense exposed any improvement the Colts had been seeing as a myth.
    The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Most of its content is inspired by African history and myths, and visions of the continent’s future.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
  • This is, sadly, the other side to the belief in our own exceptionalism: a seductive myth that can be curdled and spoiled.
    Rich Logis, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Episode Three of the fifth season of The Crown gives us the origin of one myth and the conclusion of another.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Jemisin explores resistance and identity through magic and myth, expertly crafting a world in which contemporary concerns are met with catharsis.
    Laura Zornosa, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The cast of characters and a smattering of Latin words and phrases imbue this futuristic setting with conflicts and myths borrowed from ancient history.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Read on to see what some of the sleep myths are, and the truth about them.
    Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 24 July 2019
  • Check out the slideshow above for the dumbest car myths.
    Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The notion that wolves howl at the moon is a myth, though.
    Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Even as a heap of rot, Nana is Venus, a stream of gold, a myth.
    Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • The real source of the myth seems to have come much later.
    Katherine Foxhall, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
  • There's this Greek myth about Eos, the goddess of dawn.
    Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The truths and myths that abound about the balls, paddles and shots come down to physics, of course.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Since the Mao era, the CCP has used myths to explain the recent past.
    Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The myth, the appetizer, the drink garnish, the shades of green.
    oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The class dispels the myths that such records don’t exist.
    Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • There’s so little in the way of magic and myth these days.
    Joshua David Stein, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2019
  • This is a myth that has been debunked time and time again.
    Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The show also makes an effort to bust the myth of the glamorous con.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The man, the myth, the legend is stepping away from soccer.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • The movie is filled with symbolism and metaphor, myth and legend.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024

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