fairy tale
Example Sentences
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In the familiar fairy tale, sleep represents something close to the curse of death; in this version, and in Mr. Spears’s haunting musical landscape, it is a state preferable to waking.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Young people today would think I’m telling a fairy tale.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
Their suspicious acceptance more readily hints at the painful reality underneath this modest fairy tale.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
The fairy tale of the princess and the pea tells of a young royal so sensitive she could detect a tiny pea hidden beneath many mattresses.
From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026
The way she held her hand was like a nightmare, like a Halloween ghost, like someone under a witch’s spell in a fairy tale.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
