fairy tale
Example Sentences
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A fairy tale, almost, as you point out, full of fairy-tale endings and plot points that were as good as magic.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Their suspicious acceptance more readily hints at the painful reality underneath this modest fairy tale.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
By the time I understood this in the late ’90s, we were living in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, and the fact carried the weight of a fairy tale.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
"It's a bit like the Cinderella fairy tale," says Benjamin Koch from the Institute for Theoretical Physics at TU Wien.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
“I’d originally wanted a practical partnership, but now I think I’m getting the fairy tale anyway.”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
