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

It actually took a few years for the elfin monsters to break into the mainstream.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

And in the “Five Pieces” section, Ashley Hod, eerie and elfin, and Gilbert Bolden III gave angular depth to the acrobatic partnering.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Jordan was elfin to look at and Southern to hear, “limitations” that proved assets.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2022

All the elfin knights and soldiers had turned out, and they were standing in their battle ranks, ready for action if something went wrong.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin