sprite
Example Sentences
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Braid dandelions or daisies into a floral crown, and the wearer becomes a forest sprite.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023
The setting suits Martin, who exudes a kind of wry wood sprite energy, if wood sprites wore black T-shirts and khakis.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023
When Messi and team arrived, the sprite with all the ingenuity had scored six goals in World Cups yet none in any knockout rounds.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
With a whip in one hand and a wind-bent tree in the other, the barefoot girl makes a taunting entrance, radiating caprice like some malicious sprite.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2022
A beleaguered sprite was sheltering behind her ticket desk, besieged by angry gremlins.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
