fairy tale
Example Sentences
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Clothes and accessories so elevated, they seem like a fairy tale.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Their suspicious acceptance more readily hints at the painful reality underneath this modest fairy tale.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
By the time I understood this in the late ’90s, we were living in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, and the fact carried the weight of a fairy tale.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Released in 2010, “Tangled” is Disney’s animated take on the fairy tale “Rapunzel,” about a young princess with long blond magical hair who had been unknowingly kidnapped and secreted away in an isolated tower.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
The illustration is of a knight on horseback, like a knight from a fairy tale.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
