How to Use fairy-tale in a Sentence
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There’s a nice glow to this film perched halfway between fairy-tale and handmade indie dramedy.
— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024 -
Instead, Freeman hit the walk-off home run — and how about the guy who barely could walk delivering his own fairy-tale ending?
— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024 -
The third time, the sequence, in fairy-tale fashion, went just right.
— Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023 -
How to plan the perfect trip to this fairy-tale Flemish city.
— Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023 -
And, the tulle fabric and off-shoulder design seem to add a bit of a fairy-tale feel to it.
— Poppy Morgan, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023 -
And, the tulle fabric and off-shoulder design seem to add a bit of a fairy-tale feel to it.
— Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024 -
The swan, after all, is the national bird of this fairy-tale kingdom.
— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024 -
Is their fairy-tale apocalypse — and the rebirth implied in it — sparked by the actions of the adults around them?
— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023 -
The City of Angels is known for glitz and glamour, palm trees, celebrity sightings, and fairy-tale fantasies.
— Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2024 -
Like an old walled garden, Oasy has a fairy-tale quality.
— Sarah Moss, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2023 -
Otherwise, don't miss the Petite France neighborhood to see the fairy-tale houses along the Rhine.
— Elly Leavitt, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2023 -
White hills billowed around me as far as the eye could see, and the town below was nestled between peaks like a fairy-tale village.
— Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023 -
Plenty of us dream about, read about, and fantasize about fairy-tale endings.
— Irene Kim, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2024 -
This fairy-tale chateau is the perfect base for an autumn adventure in Camden.
— Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023 -
Disney is embracing a darker side of its fairy-tale world.
— Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024 -
The film revolves around self-discovery amidst social pressures, but unlike Mean Girls, the movie has a fairy-tale twist.
— Jane Lacroix, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024 -
Don’t miss the breathtaking beauty of Hallstatt, a fairy-tale village nestled between the mountains and the lake.
— Joni Sweet, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024 -
She’s realer, funnier and more nuanced than that and not about to go quietly once her fairy-tale romance ends and Ivan makes a run for it.
— Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024 -
Mont-Saint-Michel in France tops the list of travelers' favorite fairy-tale destinations.
— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 2024 -
Without realizing it, the Kaluzhnis had been living with Schulz’s fairy-tale scenes for decades.
— Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023 -
Isabelle is a charming fairy-tale prince, but also the ruthless prince from Machiavelli.
— Olivia Waite, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023 -
The village is studded with exotic-looking kiosks—buildings on stilts—and fairy-tale spires and towers.
— Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023 -
The following spring, William and Kate wed in a fairy-tale ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
— Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023 -
The assault is never discussed again, which is problematic though consistent with the fairy-tale tone of the series.
— Kari Sonde, TIME, 21 May 2024 -
Having to sit there and watch Devin and Tori win and watch our final in our fairy-tale season go up in smoke was probably one of the most gut-wrenching moments for me on The Challenge.
— Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023 -
This fairy-tale cottage gazebo illustrates how to dress for success.
— Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 May 2024 -
Travelers come from all over to gawk at the fairy-tale medieval palace and far-reaching views from atop a dramatic rocky hilltop in the Bavarian Alps.
— Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023 -
Which is to say, viewers will be seated for season 7, which features a cast from the Washington, D.C. area looking for their own fairy-tale endings.
— Eliza Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024 -
The Kardashians star added a matching lace mini skirt and ivory Vivienne Westwood mini handbag to complete the fairy-tale look.
— Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024 -
Her initial impression of him after their very first encounter was not exactly the stuff of fairy-tale romances.
— Jeremy Helligar, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
- Everything he told us about his happy marriage was just a fairy tale.
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This is not at all the fairy tale that I was f------ promised.
— Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024 -
On the field, the Mets’ journey here was its own fairy tale.
— Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024 -
The movie, in many ways, seems like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
— Paul Grein, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2023 -
Think of the Met Gala as a royal ball in fairy tale movies.
— Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 6 May 2024 -
This show is unique in the sense that each scene is a snippet from a fairy tale.
— John Benson, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022 -
As in a fairy tale, her likeness was soon on the cover of Vogue.
— Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024 -
Will the young doctor let go and spend the holidays in a fairy tale?
— Leah Hall, Country Living, 28 Nov. 2022 -
The story of David and Lynn Angell sounds like a fairy tale.
— Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2021 -
Her methods make the money feel like the end of a fairy tale, when a white knight swoops in to save the day.
— Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022 -
For fans, the first few weeks of 2024—one of the rare times that the band went off the grid—seemed to signal that the fairy tale was over.
— Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024 -
As a child, she was struck by the ubiquity of the number 3 in her fairy tales.
— Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024 -
Most of these fictions also make use of the fairy tale.
— Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022 -
Though there are moments of romance, the show is no fairy tale.
— Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024 -
To them the Orient was still a fairy tale, and a book of mysteries.
— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 June 2024 -
This wasn’t a mirage or some fairy tale dreamt up by the media.
— Karen Guregian, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2022 -
Wilhelm even revised a fairy tale with the episode in mind.
— Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 -
Lord knows, Chelsea could use a fairy tale ending here.
— Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022 -
Thorn: This sharp name calls to mind fairy tale thorn bushes.
— Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024 -
The Austrian town of Hallstatt looks like a fairy tale come to life.
— Josh Feldman, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023 -
That was just like being in a fairy tale, a medieval fairy tale.
— Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2024 -
Then between two fairy tale chateaux, the estuary of the Gironde.
— Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021 -
Now comes Spain, which has been living its own fairy tale.
— John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023 -
One, crowned with a series of ink-black towers, looked straight out of a fairy tale.
— Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2022 -
Fuches seems to have found himself in some kind of fairy tale.
— Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2022 -
Life presents you with something of a fairy tale today.
— Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2022 -
There is a beauty to it, but there’s a rawness to it as well, and there is a sort of dark fairy tale feel to it.
— Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024 -
But to be a golden egg in the fairy tale, there would have to be a windfall of money from these sources.
— Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024 -
The dirt in south-central Minnesota, where the Twin Cities are, is fairy tale dirt.
— Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 14 Oct. 2021 -
Walter says the creature reminded him of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale; Iris responds that the original is a rape fantasy.
— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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