sprite

Example Sentences

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Pee-wee is a sprite, a creature of myth, like Pan — immune to time or decay or serious illness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 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

I already figured out how to turn the player sprite in the default game Pulp loads with into a big letter J, which of course will be totally necessary for my future masterpiece.

From The Verge • Jan. 19, 2022

Even a sprite might be less likely to curse with the triple acorn logo winking in his face.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer