fairy tale
Example Sentences
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A fairy tale, almost, as you point out, full of fairy-tale endings and plot points that were as good as magic.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
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
"It's a bit like the Cinderella fairy tale," says Benjamin Koch from the Institute for Theoretical Physics at TU Wien.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
Maybe he was like a child in a fairy tale, falling under a magical creature’s spell.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
