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

“We all move to the human world. Move in with Heather. Jude doesn’t have to worry about knighthood, and Taryn doesn’t have to throw herself away on some silly faerie boy.”

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black