How to Use fairy-tale in a Sentence

fairy-tale

1 of 2 adjective

• Plenty of us dream about, read about, and fantasize about fairy-tale endings.
  — Irene Kim, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2024
• This adorable piece brings a touch of fairy-tale magic to your home decor, providing functionality and enchanting style to your space.
  — Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
• Bachelor weekends in Scotland, fairy-tale proposals in Venice, and private weddings in Mykonos, Greece, are just a few of their recent tours de force.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 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
• 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
• The Shrek film franchise began life under Jeffrey Katzenberg’s tutelage with the 2001 film that was praised for its animation style and for playing with fairy-tale tropes.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2024
• 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

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fairy tale

2 of 2 noun

• Everything he told us about his happy marriage was just a fairy tale.
• What followed was far from a fairy tale of overnight success, though.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Wright, who compares the film to a fairy tale, found that sort of honesty refreshing.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Weddle’s last several months have been a delirious fairy tale.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
• Ponti is not the only Prince Charming to have figured in the fairy tale.
  — Wwd Staff, WWD, 20 Sep. 2024
• In other words, the climate-warming carbon gas is turned into stone, like the villain in a fairy tale.
  — Vince Beiser, Wired, 28 Dec. 2021
• The motherless daughter, caring for her father and looking for her prince, is a trope that goes back to fairy tales.
  — Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
• Cinderella is supposed to be a fairy tale, but for some her story is a dark, relatable reality.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2022
• Enter this fairy tale-like property that will treat its new owner to stunning mountain views, a pool, and actual trees inside the house.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2021
• That’s a lovely, ambitious idea, but in the end just as detached from reality as the rosy outlines her personal fairy tale once promised.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2022
• But every fairy tale was fractured before Disney invented happy endings.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• Joe Biden’s dark fairy tale about the country returning to Jim Crow is not merely an egregious political falsehood.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2022
• Between the crystal-clear waters and the canopy of ancient cypress trees hanging over its snaking path through beautiful Florida forest, the scenery feels straight out of a fairy tale.
  — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2024
• And even several that had the specific joke of the man admitting that the stork was a fairy tale — and THIS is the truth about where babies come from.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• But Hosoda pushes his retelling of this fairy tale into significantly darker, wilder territory.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024