How to Use folklore in a Sentence

folklore

noun

• He can't tell the difference between fact and folklore.
• The coyote appears in a great deal of Native American folklore.
• Boone is no stranger to the fury and the folklore of this steel-cage match.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2021
• And then, or so this bit of folklore goes, the hunter is cured of buck fever.
  — Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
• Myths and folklore seem here to help the process of mourning.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Where does your style—a mix of folklore and pop—come from?
  — Jordan Salama, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2022
• In Asian folklore, a white rabbit is said to live on the moon.
  — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 11 Dec. 2022
• But contrary to folklore, the trio didn’t tell him to quit.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• There’s a rule in the world of blockchains so ingrained that some call it folklore.
  — Wired, 4 Nov. 2019
• In many ways, folklore is the Taylor Swift's rawest and chillest piece of work.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• The text of the song came from ancient times and Ukrainian folklore.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• There were things in the school library based on Irish folklore.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• In a retelling of a legend on the folklore database, the creatures were a bit of a mixed bag.
  — James Doubek, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
• The name refers to the wolpertinger, a winged and horned hare in German folklore that resides in the forests of Bavaria.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2020
• Per Irish folklore, there was a greedy man named Jack who tried to trick the Devil.
  — Martha Sorren, Woman's Day, 27 July 2020
• In African folklore, too, the pain of loss and the past is forever woven.
  — Elizabeth Agyemang, Time, 10 Nov. 2022
• Our folklore and our stories have made predators the bad guys: the big, bad wolf; the big, bad bear.
  — Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• His melody unfolds with the simple oomph of a folklore.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2019
• Who knew Taylor Swift was part of the folklore of Bridgerton?
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2022
• My least favorite genre of news story is the folklore beat.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• Part of it is the German setting, which is the setting of so much good folklore.
  — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 8 Aug. 2024
• In the most Taylor Swiftian news ever, a folklore movie could be in the cards.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• The mystery of myth and folklore knit tightly with thrilling moments is a treat to watch.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• What happened there since has become part of the Kupp folklore.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
• The band's main objective was to keep Latin folklore alive.
  — Lauren Lee, CNN, 7 Sep. 2020
• Thiong’o’s book is a blend of folklore and mythology that tells the origin story of the Gikuyu clan.
  — Jackie Bischof, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2021
• In Arabic folklore, a ghoul is an evil spirit that robs graves and feeds on corpses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• The scenery spied on cruises on the Rhine and Danube rivers is layered with meaning found in fairy tales and folklore.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• According to folklore, members of the Salish and Kootenai tribes brought the first of these horses to the park to protect them from theft.
  — Anna Staropoli, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2025
• Ken Liu and Kuang talked about the challenges of drawing on Chinese folklore for speculative fiction.
  — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025