Sentence examples for legend spread from inspiring English sources

But the Bolivar Project began disintegrating even as its legend spread.

As the oral legend spread of Stack Lee as a black man who would not back down, Billy Lyons turned into "a small, pathetic figure, a man lacking dignity, begging for his life," Brown writes.

The incident swallows her up, defining her life: "The legend spread on the winds of Mexico City and the winds of '68, fusing with the stories of the dead and the survivors and now everybody knows that a woman stayed at the university when its freedom was violated".

"So the legend spread: Once you go to war, anybody who will encounter her will die".

The legend spread, and the date and time become synonymous with the push to celebrate the mood-altering green plant.

This was later corrected by the Washington Post to clarify he was "among" some bushes, not "in" them, but the legend spread nonetheless.

The legends spread from there into the other vernacular literatures of medieval Europe.

Their legends spread among the city's hoops junkies one neighborhood at a time.

Though legends spread around the globe about the scope of Presley's palate, Ms. Langston knew the truth.

In any case, miracles and legends spread the cult of the martyred bishop to Lithuania, Belorussia, and Ukraine, and Stanislaus became the patron saint of his native Poland.

Cornbread, one of graffiti's first legends, spread his tag around Philadelphia to get the attention of a girl, proving Mailer's point.