How to Use Sleeping Beauty in a Sentence

Sleeping Beauty

noun
  • Among the low points: A gas leak caused flames at Sleeping Beauty Castle.
    Scott Sandell, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • The experimenters do not tell Sleeping Beauty either the outcome of the coin toss nor the day.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 4 May 2023
  • Posing in front of the Sleeping Beauty castle, Roberts sat on a bench and had her arm around her son, who faced away from the camera and looked out over the moat.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
  • The second snap shows the pair kneeling on an array of pale-pink rose petals in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle, as more petals fall from above.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Visions of Sleeping Beauty entered his mind followed by the Angel of Death.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For the finale, Polina was escorted by her father out onto the ice while the waltz from Sleeping Beauty played.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The dishes were inspired by fairytales like Sleeping Beauty, with an emphasis on romance and the ethereal, Cheng told Vogue ahead of the event.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
  • In that bunch, Bunny also had an iteration of flax plant—the flora that Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on in older tellings of the fairytale.
    Nick Remsen, Vogue, 7 May 2024
  • In photos shared by the Pitch Perfect star and her girlfriend showed the two in matching sweaters embracing in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle as pink and white flower petals cascade around them.
    Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But this work shows us that solutions for a healthy future can exist in unexpected places and even in a critter like the tardigrade, a most unlikely Sleeping Beauty.
    Ashleigh Papp, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
  • One photo shows Agruma’s engagement ring, while the other shows them with Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty castle in the background.
    Kimberly Nordyke, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Videos shared online show the animatronic, fire-breathing villain from Sleeping Beauty abruptly going from breathing fire — a routine part of the show — to being engulfed in flames.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • One other concept detailed that a larger-than-life, 80-foot-tall statue of Goofy dressed as a clown would have been situated where the theme park destination's Sleeping Beauty Castle now stands.
    Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The real star of staying in one of the standard rooms here is the cute Disney touches, including our favorite detail: the fiber-optic headboard that displays fireworks going off over Sleeping Beauty Castle.
    Megan Dubois, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The concept art does, however, clearly show a rendition of Sleeping Beauty's fire-breathing Maleficent (in dragon form), while roller coaster track can be seen twisting around dark cliffs in the background, and through waterfalls in the foreground.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Yet fans of pineapple on pizza will be pleased with two choices: Hawaiian or Sleeping Beauty, with onions, mushrooms, Canadian bacon, red peppers, pineapple and pepperoni.
    Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Disney More than 60 years later, Sleeping Beauty is still possibly Disney's most, well, beautiful.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But this piece was written five years before the debut of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty prequel Maleficent, the movie that kicked off the studio’s obsession with reexamining its vintage villains.
    Amelia Tait, Wired, 27 Nov. 2021
  • By the time Disney was producing its 1959 film Sleeping Beauty, Mattinson had been promoted to an assistant animator.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2023

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