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.
  — Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Like all fairy-tale creatures, the original Santa and his elves are very dark.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• There’s a nice glow to this film perched halfway between fairy-tale and handmade indie dramedy.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 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 fairy-tale forest evokes a little girl’s interpretation of the world, a garbled dreamscape of prohibitions and pleasures.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024

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fairy tale

2 of 2 noun

• Everything he told us about his happy marriage was just a fairy tale.
• The place was spooky and silent—the woods of a fairy tale.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• That’s like a fairy tale for her, all that happened on the course of that journey.
  — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 8 June 2021
• 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
• If this were a fairy tale, NFL stardom would have been the next chapter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
• 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
• Another week, another episode where Mia attempts to get the cast on board with her fairy tales.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
• The dark fairy tale about a young factory worker woman’s search for morality in a cruel post-WWI Copenhagen.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Jan 2025