How to Use sprite in a Sentence

sprite

noun

• 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
• Stir in the bourbon and mead, add ice, and finish with sprite.
  — Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2018
• As the sprite Ariel, Francesca Marie Chilcote is a fast-moving delight.
  — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 23 June 2017
• There are no humans in this world; the residents are elves, trolls, and sprites.
  — vanityfair.com, 14 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• The front of the set is assembled from Lego tiles and looks to be a very accurate recreation of the 16-bit sprites used in Super Mario World.
  — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 25 July 2024
• 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
• The twisted vine motif recalls a wreath of flowers that might be worn by a woodland sprite.
  — Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 18 May 2019
• Charlotte says Mary Ann is more like a neighborhood sprite.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Their little daughter, Madilyn, a sprite of six or seven, is dancing around on the porch.
  — E. Jean Carroll, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2018
• 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
• An old, angelic sprite called Clarence returned to earth to bring back balance.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sardinians used to believe these domus de janas (fairy homes) were the dwellings of mythical sprites.
  — Kyre Chenven, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2018
• For the first half of the tale, Karin and Anzu, who is also a chiropractor and enjoys gambling, work odd jobs together and hang out with the other sprites.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 22 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Eleanor Kats-Chernin’s lovely original score dances around Gracie’s monologue like a sprite.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 14 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024