How to Use changeling in a Sentence

changeling

noun

• Thirteen years later, the goblin world is in crisis and needs the changeling back.
  — oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2019
• But as is so often the case, take a ho-hum little thing and put it in a garden and the ugly duckling does its changeling thing.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2017
• Nóra comes to believe that the child left in her care is not her grandson, but a changeling left behind by the fairies, or Good People, who cause illness and misfortune.
  — Patty Rhule, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2017
• The young Joan—with her gift for painting, her passion for dancing, her bristling impatience with school rules, and her wanderlust—was more like a changeling.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2020
• There are also more troubling tales, one of which is recorded by the Grimms, of elves stealing healthy human babies and leaving deformed or disabled changelings in their place.
  — Jennifer Latson, Time, 20 June 2017
• But some sympathetic twitchy polymath would come along and explain that abductions happen all the time; this is what changelings always were.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 21 Dec. 2017
• The British actress Andrea Riseborough is one of those metamorphic changelings so different from film to film, role to role, that few people realize she’s even out there.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
• Meet Cole and Tinn, accidental twins: The goblin Kull was supposed to switch them as newborns but was interrupted, causing him to panic and leave two babies, one human and one changeling, in one crib.
  — oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2019
• That’s what the fight over the changeling boy is all about; surrendering him to Oberon means forfeiting a piece of her own history and identity, involving a woman (the boy’s mother) Titania had dearly loved.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2017
• In rural 19th century Ireland, Nóra suspects that her toddler grandson, whose mother has died, is actually a changeling left by the fairies, or Good People, who cause illness and misfortune.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2017
• Superstition around fairies lingered in rural Ireland then, and Cleary recruited Bridget’s family to help drive out this mischief-making changeling.
  — Jenny Rogers, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2019
• Goslings and ducklings are baby birds, but a groundling is an uncritical or unrefined person (too poor to pay for a seat in Renaissance theaters) and a changeling is a child exchanged by fairies, or any kind of replacement of inferior value.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
• These men and women sat in uncomfortable, beat-up school desks determined to learn English — such a difficult language to acquire with its changeling grammar rules and high-maintenance punctuation marks.
  — Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
• The imitations were clearly imitations, less like uncanny meat changelings and more like the Dionne Warwick impersonator at your friendly neighborhood drag bar.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024