elves

Example Sentences

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You can watch our soldiers rappel out of one of the Seahawks just like Santa’s elves.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

"All the other children were dressed as elves," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

Brownies at that time was a strange organization in which the girls were divided into groups named after different kinds of fairies—pixies, elves and gnomes were the groups in our outfit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

They had never had guests before, and they went to work like darling elves, sweeping, mopping, cooking, baking—making mattresses of straw and burlap bags, setting tables, putting party favors at each place.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut