fairy ring
Example Sentences
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Anyone who has ventured into a marsh is likely to have come across a fairy ring: a strange patch of ground where the plant life is markedly different, often for no apparent reason.
From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024
But this very neglect has allowed nature to take over with her delicate jewels and living draperies, and the property is even encircled by a ring of ancient-looking moss-covered stones like a fairy ring.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024
Her property includes a fairy ring, a group of redwoods growing in a tight circle around the stump of a logged tree.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2019
The guacamole is presented as a kind of fairy ring, trimmed with colorful pickled vegetables and ash.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2019
I turned around to see where he was, and was just in time to see him step very gently over the little toadstools into the fairy ring.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
