myth
Example Sentences
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But Rome owes to him the most famous foundation myth of antiquity.
“This was kind of a myth. This was something Dennis perpetuated.”
From Los Angeles Times
Green, in a guest column for SI.com, said the notion that current officials are anything but de facto full-time employees is a myth — even though most hold down other careers while continuing to work NFL games.
From Los Angeles Times
But even the Norris of Internet myth would have a hard time surveying the scale of Washington’s current fiscal disaster.
We make the myth our own, in one viewing after another, one quotable line after another.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
