Example sentences for: fairies

How can you use “fairies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But these stories are certainly not children's literature: The fairies are heartless and creepy (which makes them human enough that they're weirdly touching).

  • The fairies that swirl around these settings, first as Tinkerbell-ish balls of light and then as conventional storybook sprites, belong to a different age and culture.

  • Titania, queen of the fairies, has already seduced Theseus, duke of Athens, and the struggle between her and her mate, Oberon, for possession of an orphaned changeling boy has generated hurricanes, floods, and "contagious fogs."

  • Pharisees fairies are also deep in Sussex folklore, while something too complex to understand is called wigwams for goose's bridles.

  • Warner wrote a series of stories--I think, but I'm not sure, that a lot of them were published in The New Yorker in the '70s--about communities of fairies living in various countries.


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