elfin

Example Sentences

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With her bleach-blond punk haircut, puckish grin and bright elfin eyes, she could have come to the company’s heavily guarded San Francisco headquarters straight from a Berlin rave, via an old forest road in Middle-earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

It actually took a few years for the elfin monsters to break into the mainstream.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

Soon I was navigating the reading nooks and chef’s kitchens of an elfin cottage, a gothic coastal A-frame, a cozy “loch house” in the Scottish Highlands.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

Short, by contrast, is an extrovert, elfin and impish.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2022

He said: “My own beloved girlfriend died in the war. She died on the elfin front. Blanchepon was her name. She died.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin