Sentence examples for legend before from inspiring English sources

Iverson crossed up the legend before hitting a jump shot over him in Philadelphia the same season.

"He was a legend before any of this happened.

They bellowed for an Orioles legend before the game — a parade of legends, in fact, as other Hall of Famers arrived to commemorate Robinson.

Mike Hodges doesn't want his audience to be comfortable even now, and he refuses to be a legend before he's dead.

As I see it, Tolkien wrote this absorbing and unfinished poem to test out the idea of connecting his own imaginative universe to Arthurian legend before deciding, consciously or not, that his work was better off standing on its own.

Mr. Andersen's own story is the stuff of ballet legend: Before auditioning for City Ballet at George Balanchine's request in 1980, he was the youngest principal dancer at the Royal Danish Ballet.

Her career was the stuff of legend long before, aged just 26, she won her first Oscar, for her turn in The Accused.

John Wayne became a legend long before he died, and two Presidents spoke of him as if his battles in the movies were real.

Before the die-cast market took off in the early 1990s, few models from the legends before then, including Richard Petty, were made and even fewer are still around.

The twins from Huntington, Long Island, were christened as legends before they even stepped on campus, appearing twice on the cover of Inside Lacrosse magazine.

Ms. Fuller, who has succeeded publishing legends before, said she was undaunted by the challenge of following Mr. McDonell and taking on People, the most successful magazine ever.