moppet

Example Sentences

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The girl herself has been a vampire for 10 years rather than hundreds, and the boy is an unbearably cute moppet who does magic tricks.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022

And, like that earlier film, this movie is less about the exploits of an adorable moppet and his worldly-wise older relative than the brother-sister relationship that hovers just around the edges.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2021

This straw-stuffed moppet, with black eyes reminiscent of a shark's, can be seen at the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida — though why anyone would want to is a mystery.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2021

It is a bit dismaying to see Roman Griffin Davis in here for his moderate child-actor moppet turn in the worryingly overindulged Jojo Rabbit.

From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2020

"They came together, by Heaven!" said Foster; "and Tressilian—to speak Heaven's truth—obtained a moment's interview with our pretty moppet, while I was talking apart with Lambourne."

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir