leprechaun
Example Sentences
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A leprechaun costume at Notre Dame might seem silly, but Parker said Bowden owned it.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025
As Fintan O'Toole quipped recently in the Irish Times, his country "found the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow without even trying to catch the leprechaun."
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2024
There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.
From Slate • May 30, 2024
Things go terribly wrong, resulting in a comedic adventure involving an unusual dragon, bunnies in hazmat suits, leprechaun millennials and an overweight German unicorn in a too-tight tracksuit.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022
Artemis’s main problem was one of location—how to locate a leprechaun.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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