leprechaun

Example Sentences

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There’s probably a little leprechaun one for St. Patrick’s Day.

From Slate • May 30, 2024

Think of the leprechaun of Ireland, the puckish forest-dwelling aluxe of Mexico, or the grisly krasue of Southeast Asia, a woman whose internal organs hang exposed from her neck down.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2023

The ends of the rainbows touched down in the rolling fields below me, no place green enough to hide a leprechaun but a fair swap for living with rattlers.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

In drawings and paintings, Low imagines her mother as a gangster from a Jackie Chan film, or a leprechaun running around and hoarding a pile of toilet paper.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

Colin kicked his legs to the side with each step, like a heel-clicking leprechaun, trying to discourage the blood-thirsty hornets from attacking his legs.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green