legends
Example Sentences
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The two living legends could both make history as the first male players to appear at six World Cups.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Long before RZA and the GZA became musical legends – when their friends called them Robert Diggs and Gary Grice – martial arts cinema was relegated to cinematic margins.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
Before he was an international sports mogul, he was Enos Stanley Kroenke from rural Missouri with sporting heritage scrawled right on his birth certificate—his namesakes were St. Louis Cardinals legends Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Alice Keys and Grandmaster Flash are among the first batch of music legends set to be honored with the Black American Music Assn.’s new ICE Medal of Honor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
“His tomb was destroyed centuries ago, but Reyna and I used to wonder if we could find Diocletian’s ghost and ask where he was buried...well, according to the legends, his scepter was buried with him.”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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