Example sentences for: fairy

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

  • Responding to the whistles and taunts of Old Man Moon, she attempts to re-enact the fairy tale and "jump over the moon."

  • Then it skips ahead to track a jade pin (it signifies hedonistic liberation) from the custody of a young Wilde to a swishy fringe creature called Jack Fairy to the regal Slade, a bisexual superstar who carries the news to all the young dudes.

  • They ingeniously recombine elements of fairy tale, religious allegory (Harry as the chosen one), half-remembered childhood reading, and pop culture (including, fairly explicitly in the case of Potter, the Star Wars cycle itself) into something new, fresh, and irresistible.

  • And since no one bundles them off into the ghetto of genre when they bring in magic (unless you consider juvenile lit a genre), children's authors can draw on myths and fairy tales to give their books resonance and deeply satisfying structure.

  • The term "slice of life" has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.


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