How to Use elfin in a Sentence

elfin

adjective

• They were delighted with the child's elfin charm.
• A white-haired man of 65 with an elfin face, Haidary rides his bicycle to work and back.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
• The author, still youthfully elfin at 67, notes that this is so...
  — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2019
• At 41, Heti herself — fair and faintly elfin, with overgrown bangs — could pass for a grad student.
  — Molly Fischer, The Cut, 1 May 2018
• With his short, curly hair and elfin demeanor, Joshua Kiszka defies the stereotype of the ultra-macho hard-rock singer.
  — Randy Lewis, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• Rita Ora's not one to play it safe in the hair world, with her choices bouncing from a platinum blond pixie at the Met Gala to long, elfin princess hair in Cannes.
  — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 1 June 2017
• More than 4,600 miles away, in a single-story house at the end of a country road in Dinwiddie County, Va., an elfin man with gray hair reviewed footage of the rallies this spring, took a puff on his pipe and smiled.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• This year, for the first time in more than 40 years, the elfin man didn’t deliver gifts to the needy children along the hollows and pig paths in Harlan County, a place that would have been bereft of hope around Christmas for years if not for him.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 21 Dec. 2017
• An elfin 21-year-old model with dreadlocks named Thomas Castro was buying a ring, encrusted with diamonds and in the shape of two panthers, for his mother.
  — Greg Howard, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• But what if someone, or a group of someones—say, traders in Mexico—had a simple solution to the problem that wouldn’t involve prying @realDonaldTrump from the soon-to-be president’s elfin hands?
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 12 Jan. 2017
• Among its regulars was one Jane Auer Bowles, an extravagant woman of elfin physique who, by the end of her days, had taken to wearing a conspicuous wig.
  — Negar Azimi, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
• There is a Green Giant Instagram account, which purports to chronicle a cross-country road trip taken by the giant and his elfin buddy, Sprout.
  — Martha C. White, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2016
• Stories of the nisse, tomte and other elfin creatures became more popular, eventually finding their place in Christmas lore.
  — Regina Hansen, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• Perel is small and blond, with an elfin face, intense, peppy charisma, and a Francophone accent that serves to bolster her psychoanalytic and erotic authority.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 May 2017
• Deletion of those genes in people causes Williams syndrome, which is characterized by elfin facial features, cognitive difficulties, and a tendency to love everyone.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 July 2017

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