Sentence examples for persistent legend from inspiring English sources
The story was false, but it became the most persistent legend of Sept. 11, according to David P. Mikkelson, who catalogs urban legends on the snopes.com Web site.
Linguists and lexicographers are on hand to debunk some common misconceptions, like the persistent legend that the word is some kind of acronym having to do with the sexual whims of monarchs, or the idea that it appears in Shakespeare.
The persistent legend that Mother Goose was an actual Boston woman, Elizabeth Goose (Vergoose, or Vertigoose), whose grave in Boston's Old Granary Burying Ground is still a tourist attraction, is false.
There is a persistent legend in physics of the hermit genius, the scientist who drops out of academia and then returns, many years later, with an insight that moves the discipline forward.
A persistent legend among many young Texas males is that if you asked for change for a 20 at the Snake Farm, your double sawbuck would be kept and you'd be directed to one of the trailers out back, where a lady of the night would be waiting, in the tradition of the Chicken Ranch in La Grange.
What amount of reality, if any, may underlie this curious and persistent Legend of St. Brendan's voyage is a very difficult to say.
He will, in his words, "recount what can be reliably documented and... examine some of the most persistent legends".
She immediately dispelled 2 persistent legends about General Washington: that he wore wooden false teeth & that he chopped down a cherry tree.
Hamburger's guide addressed the same difficulties facing Washington's biographers: Over our soup, Ms. Rauscher told us that visitors to Mount Vernon seem possessed by two persistent legends: that the General wore wooden false teeth, and that he chopped down the cherry tree.
The persistent legends and ancient histories regarding the stones' oracular nature suddenly take on a more logical meaning.
One of the most persistent legends was the "pig man" or "goat man" who was claimed to be either partly one of those two animals, OR just a guy who owned pigs/goats.
