castle in the sky
Example Sentences
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The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
No, not the majestic castle in the sky where her character, a Valkyrie warrior, brings slain heroes to serve her father, the mighty god Wotan.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2019
Twenty minutes into “Warcraft,” viewers will already have been whisked to such fanciful places as Draenor, Azeroth, Stormwind — and a castle in the sky.
From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2016
Beyond which there is no real vision, no holy text, no castle in the sky.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012
He seated himself by this hook and was almost breathless when he thought that it might be a bucket lowered to the earth by its great chain from an enchanted castle in the sky.
From Little Tom by Tille, V.
