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

Soon I was navigating the reading nooks and chef’s kitchens of an elfin cottage, a gothic coastal A-frame, a cozy “loch house” in the Scottish Highlands.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

Smiling his little elfin smile, he sometimes looks no older than that 11-year-old boy who had the world taken from him.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

“You have no faith in me! You do not realize my value to the elfin kingdom!”

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