faerie

Example Sentences

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Instead, they learn to sing the local language in a lovely faerie hymnal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

From the start, Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada appears to be a creature of faerie, or a mythic beast: a captivating beauty, just so long as you don’t look too closely at the wrong moment.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

Anyone who knows their way around faerie tales knows you need to be cautious with old women in the woods.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2022

The Mad Knight knew: “He leaves behind hot, dusty, tedious La Mancha and enters the realm of faerie by what amounts to a willed act of the imagination.”

From New York Times • May 26, 2020

All around them are the less awful children of faerie nobles, eating their bread and honey, their cakes and roasted pigeons, their elderflower jam with biscuits and cheese and the fat globes of grapes.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black