gnome

Example Sentences

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Glenn was as tall as Charlie, and Little Britches was a gnome between them.

From Literature

A couple have won a legal battle over a tiny strip of grass outside their house, after a neighbour tried to claim it as their own with a garden gnome.

From BBC

After that I walked to the village every day, even though it would be at least a week before a gnome came back with a message.

From Literature

It was a house, just a house, three stories, brick with leaded-glass windows, and a sloping lawn out front with two garden gnomes at the head of a brick walkway.

From Literature

As Madsen of the Los Padres National Forest explained later by phone, they were “created by the trail gnomes” — hikers arranging rocks themselves to adjust water flow and temperature, with no government entities involved.

From Los Angeles Times