A legend was playing hurt.

Hoaxes and legends have played a significant role in the history of upstate New York.

An ancient Chinese legend played an important part in early garden design.

Irritated that the holographic legend didn't play, Corran jiggled the case.

In his neoclassicist ballets, the legend of imperial Petersburg played a substantial role.

The line has special resonance when a real legend plays a legend.

The legend played a key role in many (now largely discredited) Hamitic theories of African political and social development.

And yet, in the preceding century, the legend had played its part in stimulating inquiry into the geographical distribution of species.

He told me stories of the forest in which the legends of the past played a great part.

Of course legend has played its role in history, as usual.