elfin

Example Sentences

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With her bleach-blond punk haircut, puckish grin and bright elfin eyes, she could have come to the company’s heavily guarded San Francisco headquarters straight from a Berlin rave, via an old forest road in Middle-earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

With her elfin features and skinhead look she was one of pop music's most recognisable figures.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2023

The evening before, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, 37, had conducted that ensemble with crisply elfin spirit as one of the leading candidates to take over when Jaap van Zweden, 62, leaves at the end of next season.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023

Before their was “Glee” there was “Rudolph,” with its doe-eyed but different hero, its elfin dentist and it island of misfit toys.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

In the old days, five elfin warlocks would form a pentagram around the target and spread a magic shield over it, temporarily stopping time inside the enchanted enclosure.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer