How to Use fairy-tale in a Sentence

fairy-tale

1 of 2 adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That in and of itself would have been a fairy-tale moment; for Forde to rescue the team in his first game back was one of many Welcome to Wrexham developments that felt almost too good to be true.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
• There is also kissing, cuddling, tender touching and musings on fairy-tale love.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Bizarre glimpses of Ale’s fairy-tale childhood do not a proper backstory make, and wanting to work for Hasbro hardly feels like a serious goal.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
• To a rom-com fairy-tale Manhattan that doesn’t actually exist?
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Ted Hughes made the point that Shakespeare stood balanced on a knife’s edge between myth and measurement, between an old, fairy-tale world and a new, empirical one.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• Reiner lives in their heads rent-free despite his immoral and immature mangling of fairy-tale morality.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 Feb. 2024
• Her films, although typically set in or near the present day, are suffused with an almost primordial air of fairy-tale enchantment.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• America seemed headed for an economic fairy-tale ending in late 2023.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Half-spoofing the fairy-tale genre, TPB is full of trite showbizzy anachronisms that don’t require innocent audience belief but inspire snark.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024

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fairy tale

2 of 2 noun

• Everything he told us about his happy marriage was just a fairy tale.
• Most of these fictions also make use of the fairy tale.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• Their surroundings, their culture and their identity is no fairy tale.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• While few will ever achieve the fairy tale ending depicted in princess stories, all of us will face adversity.
  — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 20 July 2024
• Rodgers & Hammerstein put a musical twist on the classic fairy tale about a girl who meets her prince during one incredible night.
  — cleveland, 31 Mar. 2022
• Set in Portland, Stumptown Stages’ spring musical is a fairy tale-framed look at digital dating.
  — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2022
• In this variation of the fairy tale, the wicked stepmother is replaced by a stepfather, Don Magnifico.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2022
• No doubt, the real life of Ukrainian women was no fairy tale, and their experiences might not universally fit into this narrative.
  — Mia Bloom, Chron, 22 Mar. 2022
• Sandwiched in between this fairy tale’s beginning and ending is the story of another woman who also yearns for fame, and will eventually have to settle for infamy.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024
• Both stories have the quality of a fairy tale: the boy who sweeps the courtyard in the night by rote, as if bewitched; the foundling child who retains a connection to his mother even as others try to conceal it from him.
  — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• Adapted from Oscar Wilde’s haunting fairy tale, the show is sure to resonate: Its storytelling actors portray vagrants confronting a border wall.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• This is not at all the fairy tale that I was f------ promised.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 20 May 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
• 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
• 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
• Lord knows, Chelsea could use a fairy tale ending here.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024