Examples of urban legend in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The long-gestating Indiana Jones 5 is turning back into an urban legend. — Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2021 The Utah tragedy attracted considerable press attention across the country, including San Antonio, where its details gradually morphed into a local urban legend. — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Oct. 2021 Halden debunked a similar urban legend with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2004 that said freezing water bottles releases dioxins. — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2021 Decades after Daniel's murder, his ghost becomes an urban legend in 20th-century Chicago, haunting residents of the city's infamous Cabrini-Green public housing projects. — Jordan Gass Poore, CNN, 29 Aug. 2021 How did the nearly impossible idea become an urban legend? — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021 Years later, the devastation caused by the urban legend remains, but the true culprit of that destruction is up for debate. — Tanya Christian, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2021 After his visit, Anthony, like Helen before him, searches for the stories that fuel the urban legend of Candyman, stories about the trauma of the past for Black residents in the area. — Jordan Gass Poore, CNN, 29 Aug. 2021 Virginia Madsen starred as skeptical grad student Helen Lyle, who accidentally summons the hook-wielding killer (Tony Todd) while investigating the urban legend in the Cabrini–Green projects of Chicago. — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2021

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