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.
• In Asian folklore, a white rabbit is said to live on the moon.
  — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 11 Dec. 2022
• There were things in the school library based on Irish folklore.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• 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
• My least favorite genre of news story is the folklore beat.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• In Arabic folklore, a ghoul is an evil spirit that robs graves and feeds on corpses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• For the sake of folklore and everything fun, there are a few other ideas on how this area came to be.
  — Erika Owen, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2023
• The fluttering fairies of folklore seem to be free from the storybooks at last—fairycore home decor is here to stay.
  — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Dec. 2023
• Taylor won her third Album of the Year award for folklore, and Joe won his first Grammy.
  — Women's Health, 10 Apr. 2023
• That tragedy, though, exists behind a haze of folklore.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2023
• In folklore and custom, this month’s full moon is known as the strawberry moon.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• The Mass got its name from folklore, which says the rooster crowed at midnight only on the night Jesus was born.
  — Gina Rich, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• The book is broken into seasons, then by months and told through the lens of stories, using folklore.
  — Jean Chen Smith, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2023
• It’s not stitched through with postcard folklore or local rhythms.
  — Vulture, 21 Nov. 2022
• In Roman folklore, salamanders are fabled to be able to walk through fire and come out alive.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
• In 2020, Cottagecore saw a whole new light as Taylor Swift's folklore album took over the music charts.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 11 Jan. 2023
• When the Lemonade artist showed the folklore artist love at her premiere, Swift thanked her in a thoughtful post on Instagram.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• This is Damballah, the primordial creator of life in Haitian Vodou folklore.
  — Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
• Children can stop at the craft station to make rabbit ears, a symbol of the rabbit on the moon in Japanese folklore.
  — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Was the Chinese folklore about the bucket-snail wife the inspiration for your snail story?
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• Listening to folklore then is like wiping the cuff of a cable knit on fogged glass to peer in on private moments.
  — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
• The film plays with his fascination with texture, sound and folklore.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
• The genesis of Chloë Sevigny is the stuff of fashion folklore: a teen model who skipped school to go thrift shopping in New York.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
• Through Chinese folklore, the movie deals with a child experiencing a loss of a parent.
  — Akruti Babaria, Parents, 5 Mar. 2024
• Nathan suggests not only going bold with plaids, but to tie-in a little folklore fodder.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• Such fairground folklore is tied to local date palms, which originated in the Middle East and North Africa.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2023
• The fourth of 12 children, Dolly was raised in the Smoky Mountains by a father who worked two or more jobs (and couldn’t read) and a mother who filled the house with love and Southern folklore (and could sing).
  — Jason Sheeler, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Nov. 2022
• The music of folklore takes its time to unfurl, ivory keys yawning at dusk, acoustic strings waking at daybreak.
  — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024