leprechauns
Example Sentences
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It is easy-breezy, light spirited — rainbows, leprechauns, good luck, good cheer — it is childlike in its commitment to being pure fun.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2024
Three years later came Crock of Gold, with its album cover featuring a painting by Shane MacGowan of leprechauns that resembled the demons that seemed to haunt him throughout his life.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2023
In Mayan culture, an aluxe is believed to be a mischievous elflike being that lives in the woods, a creature of folklore similar to leprechauns, unicorns, mermaids and the Loch Ness Monster.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023
Much of the work that came his way was playing leprechauns, Santa’s elves and other kinds of elves, all roles he refused.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022
No wonder leprechauns were such ridiculous figures in human folklore.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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