How to Use myth in a Sentence

myth

noun
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  • 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.
  • 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 urban myth is that brown sugar is mixed with the beef in the burger.
    — Dan Kadar, The Enquirer, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The two will now try their hands at full-time myth-busting.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Some of the half-truths and Philly myths are pretty creative.
    — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • It’s a myth spread by dog owners that cats are cold and aloof.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The myth is that this bill is going to fix that problem. ...
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The myths that helped us unite as a nation began to fray.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Sep. 2017
  • As the years went on and his fortune grew, so did the myth of John Donovan.
    — Ian Frisch, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
  • When held up to the light of truth, this myth loses its luster.
    — Jacqueline Pata, SELF, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Facts about his life were initially hard to come by, and myth rushed in to fill the void.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Still, there’s one myth about credit that won’t seem to go away.
    — Holly Johnson, CNN Underscored, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Between the lines: There are myths about how to conceive a girl or a boy.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, Axios, 8 July 2024
  • But the point is that for so many of us, Jimmy was a sort of a central hero, like a heroic figure in some Greek myth.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Appreciate that Indigenous cultures are not extinct nor a monolith—two of the most common myths.
    — Kate Nelson, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2024

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