pixies

Example Sentences

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Dominic: It’s a little like when Professor Lockhart released that swarm of Cornish pixies in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”: They’re everywhere and constantly in your face.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

There are bullies, a sly villain, a kidnapping, Irish pixies, a West African protector-spider and classes in Marvellian history, chants and elixirs.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2022

The Moors are a wondrous, lush world bursting with glowing flowers, fairies, ogres, pixies and talking tree giants.

From Washington Times • Jan. 14, 2020

"It's scarcely worth having a name for. I don't have a name for not believing in pixies."

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2019

I didn’t know pixies could say real words.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff