faerie

Example Sentences

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Instead, they learn to sing the local language in a lovely faerie hymnal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

From the start, Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada appears to be a creature of faerie, or a mythic beast: a captivating beauty, just so long as you don’t look too closely at the wrong moment.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

Anyone who knows their way around faerie tales knows you need to be cautious with old women in the woods.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2022

The pièce de résistance depicted a faerie woman with flowing hair whose fingers turned into peacock feathers.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2020

I wonder if faerie wings grow back; I know that butterflies that lose a wing never fly again.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black