How to Use lore in a Sentence

lore

noun
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  • The upcoming movie seems to stick with the plot and lore of the original game.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • Not really the result that would add to the lore there.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The table was the object of tourist lore, scarcely a few decades old.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Add it all up and these Celtics are in prime position to etch their names along the teams of lore.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • Doris is a mile-marker for the journey and part of Rocky Mountaineer lore.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Win or lose on Sunday, the Lions have already claimed a beloved place of lore.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Decades after the prison closed, all that remains is the lore of the desperate men once locked up here.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • There are NPCs to find, quests to run, and what feels like hundreds of tiny lore sheets for backstory.
    — Chris Stobing, PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The simplest way to gain lore is to summon glimmers to go questing.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • These fights placed North Texas fighters in boxing lore.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • But everything about the lore surrounding the film is made up — just like the movie itself.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The decks contain characters, items and songs from Disney lore far and wide.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • So much of the groundwork had already been done in all the online conversations about the lore.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Student lore warns that touching Mrs. Kyle’s tree could lead to bad luck or broken bones.
    — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In case you're not caught up on Keanu Reeves lore, the man is stellar at answering vague questions.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Ever since, it has been etched into travel lore and, for many, is an once-in-a-lifetime stay.
    — Liz Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Long thought to be nothing more than local legend, the lore proved correct.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
  • What the race also offers is more than 125 years of unmatched lore, which is what lured Kipchoge here.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Sharp-eyed audiences and fans of the game should look for everything from monsters to spells that nod to the larger lore.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
  • While Swift has always loved hiding deep lore clues and easter eggs, the ones here are not very subtle at all.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The news unequivocally adds to the lore that is Wilkesboro.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2024
  • This felt beneath the Warriors — the capital W version of such lore.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • There are such dark themes already in the game and the lore that this younger audience has digested and embraced.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The Romans packed the tradition along on their way to England, and these people originally brought the lore to the New World.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Editor’s picks Kotecha not only knew the lore but was innately part of it.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
  • The ice cream man — and not only ice cream men but also ice cream women — is a beloved figure who shoulders as much lore as the tooth fairy.
    — Camryn Brewer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • There are great places of New Age lore tucked in to this zone, vortexes and energy fields, ways to explain the gnarled trees perhaps.
    — Matthew Askari, Men's Health, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And in 2019, Puth kept the internet lore going by addressing it in a Buzzfeed Celeb video.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
  • At the heart of Jonathan Stern’s family lore was his grandfather’s vintage car.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Over the past 149 years, the event has picked up its own set of traditions, celebrations, and more than a few bits of cultural lore.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 17 Apr. 2023

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