leprechaun

Example Sentences

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There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.

From Slate • May 30, 2024

The ends of the rainbows touched down in the rolling fields below me, no place green enough to hide a leprechaun but a fair swap for living with rattlers.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

A clock still hung on the wall, but most everything else lay in tatters on the sodden grass: a flower pot, socks, a festive tinsel leprechaun.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022

In drawings and paintings, Low imagines her mother as a gangster from a Jackie Chan film, or a leprechaun running around and hoarding a pile of toilet paper.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

“The leprechaun is bound by certain rituals. Very specific rituals, I might add. We can use them to track one down.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer