Example Sentences

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This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

Oh, SZA — just to add to the bards.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

The exploits of Sundiata Keita, a near-mythical figure in the Mande oral tradition, have been passed down by generations of bards.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

An underground resistance movement swells into a mass uprising, spurred on by wizard-like bards and a single, cryptic line of graffiti: “Upwake!”

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023

“Your names are not unknown among the bards of the north.”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander