How to Use sprite in a Sentence
sprite
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The actor had to do the moves, and that footage ended up being the sprites for the game.
—Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2017
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Stir in the bourbon and mead, add ice, and finish with sprite.
—Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2018
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As the sprite Ariel, Francesca Marie Chilcote is a fast-moving delight.
—Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 23 June 2017
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There are no humans in this world; the residents are elves, trolls, and sprites.
—vanityfair.com, 14 July 2017
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In the game, players lead a small sprite through landscapes of brushstrokes to solve physics- and color-based puzzles.
—Gene Park, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
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Doesn’t make sense to compare a little sprite of a U.S. senator to a giraffe.
—Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 23 Mar. 2020
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Ismail’s Louis is as squirmy as a worm, then puckish as a sprite in his flirtations with Joe.
—Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
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The twisted vine motif recalls a wreath of flowers that might be worn by a woodland sprite.
—Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 18 May 2019
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Charlotte says Mary Ann is more like a neighborhood sprite.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
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The birds flitted from corner to corner in their cages, quick little sprites with black-and-white breasts and flame-orange beaks.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
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Their little daughter, Madilyn, a sprite of six or seven, is dancing around on the porch.
—E. Jean Carroll, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2018
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The first tutu was worn in 1832 by the great dancer, Marie Taglioni, for her leading role in La Sylphide — a ballet about weightless, winged, air sprites.
—Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 1 June 2018
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An old, angelic sprite called Clarence returned to earth to bring back balance.
—Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2019
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The setting suits Martin, who exudes a kind of wry wood sprite energy, if wood sprites wore black T-shirts and khakis.
—Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
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One of the first major 3D fighting games to make a splash in the era of 2D sprites, the Tekken series has always stood apart as a technical showcase of its time.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
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Though it was only supposed to fly a handful of times, the sprite of a chopper has kept going, to the delight of NASA engineers.
—Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
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The result, for most standard SNES games, is the complete removal of the infamous frame rate slowdown that showed up when too many sprites clogged up the screen.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2019
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Pee-wee is a sprite, a creature of myth, like Pan — immune to time or decay or serious illness.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
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The young attarwallah, perhaps relieved to see a friendly face in this tough crowd, was upon me like a sprite.
—New York Times, 10 May 2021
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Sardinians used to believe these domus de janas (fairy homes) were the dwellings of mythical sprites.
—Kyre Chenven, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2018
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Everything about it, from the six buttons per player to the large dynamic sprites and backgrounds, felt larger than life to our teenage brains.
—Aurich Lawson, Ars Technica, 30 May 2023
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In Sousa's eyes, Blizzard Classic's art team may have been better off starting from scratch to redraw every single sprite in the game.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 30 June 2017
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The most obvious one is that the series finally gets a visual upgrade and advances from sprites to a 2.5D look built on polygons.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
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The actress, then 24, was praised for her performance and received a Tony nomination for her role as a sprite in the production.
—Morgan Evans, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2017
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With a whip in one hand and a wind-bent tree in the other, the barefoot girl makes a taunting entrance, radiating caprice like some malicious sprite.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022
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For example, in some European folklore, these fireballs were thought to be satanic sprites that could wield fire, and these were called will-o-the-wisps!
—Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
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Amid fairy statuary and a tiny fairy doorway at the base of a large tree, Imani Williams masqueraded as a sprite, wearing fairy wings and carrying a wand.
—Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2020
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First, the remakes ditch the classic 2D sprite aesthetic for an overly polished, 3D cartoon vibe.
—Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
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Suddenly, Charles’ attention is caught by a young woman dressed as a wood sprite, hiding behind a large vase.
—Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 15 Nov. 2020
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With help from the sprite Ariel, Prospero seeks revenge via the storm of the play’s name, while dealing with complications from the spiteful island lifer Caliban.
—James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Oct. 2017
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