Example sentences for: fairies

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

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • The playwright set Midsummer in an ancient, vaguely mythological Greece in which intercourse between mortals and fairies is meant to be commonplace.

  • Above all, Foster is ruthless about Yeats' ruthlessness: He shows how Yeats went about building modern Irish literature in Dublin and in London at the end of the 19 th century, and how Irish goblins and fairies were foot soldiers in that campaign.

  • He confessed that he saw no reason not to believe in the actual existence of Irish fairies and goblins.


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