How to Use fairy-tale in a Sentence

fairy-tale

1 of 2 adjective

• The third time, the sequence, in fairy-tale fashion, went just right.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• How to plan the perfect trip to this fairy-tale Flemish city.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
• And, the tulle fabric and off-shoulder design seem to add a bit of a fairy-tale feel to it.
  — Poppy Morgan, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• The swan, after all, is the national bird of this fairy-tale kingdom.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024
• Is their fairy-tale apocalypse — and the rebirth implied in it — sparked by the actions of the adults around them?
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The City of Angels is known for glitz and glamour, palm trees, celebrity sightings, and fairy-tale fantasies.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2024
• Like an old walled garden, Oasy has a fairy-tale quality.
  — Sarah Moss, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2023
• Otherwise, don't miss the Petite France neighborhood to see the fairy-tale houses along the Rhine.
  — Elly Leavitt, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2023
• White hills billowed around me as far as the eye could see, and the town below was nestled between peaks like a fairy-tale village.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
• This fairy-tale chateau is the perfect base for an autumn adventure in Camden.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• Disney is embracing a darker side of its fairy-tale world.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
• Without realizing it, the Kaluzhnis had been living with Schulz’s fairy-tale scenes for decades.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
• Isabelle is a charming fairy-tale prince, but also the ruthless prince from Machiavelli.
  — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• The village is studded with exotic-looking kiosks—buildings on stilts—and fairy-tale spires and towers.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
• The following spring, William and Kate wed in a fairy-tale ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• Having to sit there and watch Devin and Tori win and watch our final in our fairy-tale season go up in smoke was probably one of the most gut-wrenching moments for me on The Challenge.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• Travelers come from all over to gawk at the fairy-tale medieval palace and far-reaching views from atop a dramatic rocky hilltop in the Bavarian Alps.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
• There is also kissing, cuddling, tender touching and musings on fairy-tale love.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Bizarre glimpses of Ale’s fairy-tale childhood do not a proper backstory make, and wanting to work for Hasbro hardly feels like a serious goal.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
• To a rom-com fairy-tale Manhattan that doesn’t actually exist?
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Reiner lives in their heads rent-free despite his immoral and immature mangling of fairy-tale morality.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 Feb. 2024
• Her films, although typically set in or near the present day, are suffused with an almost primordial air of fairy-tale enchantment.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• America seemed headed for an economic fairy-tale ending in late 2023.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Half-spoofing the fairy-tale genre, TPB is full of trite showbizzy anachronisms that don’t require innocent audience belief but inspire snark.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
• At the library in Ann Arbor, her story about Saniyka, the valedictorian, doesn’t have an obvious fairy-tale ending.
  — Nancy Averett, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• This fairy-tale feeling of camaraderie hung in the air all evening, no doubt enhanced by the enchanting setting of the legendary Castillo Del Lago estate, formerly owned by Madonna.
  — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2023
• Young Deer’s dramatic thriller, with its romantic subplot and fairy-tale conclusion, contrasted sharply to the real-life story.
  — Angela Aleiss, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• The Bachelor perfected this formula, weaving together one winner’s fairy-tale romance with the scrapping, snarking, and scheming of two dozen or so women who don’t get the guy.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• The first Descendants films followed the travails of fairy-tale creatures and their offspring — movies that can be very loosely described as the Disney Channel’s version of a live-action cinematic universe.
  — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
• Advertisement Heelan reprises her role, as do Jackson and several of the young actresses playing famous fairy-tale denizens.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 June 2023

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fairy tale

2 of 2 noun

• Everything he told us about his happy marriage was just a fairy tale.
• The movie, in many ways, seems like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2023
• This show is unique in the sense that each scene is a snippet from a fairy tale.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
• As in a fairy tale, her likeness was soon on the cover of Vogue.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
• Will the young doctor let go and spend the holidays in a fairy tale?
  — Leah Hall, Country Living, 28 Nov. 2022
• Her methods make the money feel like the end of a fairy tale, when a white knight swoops in to save the day.
  — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• As a child, she was struck by the ubiquity of the number 3 in her fairy tales.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• Though there are moments of romance, the show is no fairy tale.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
• This wasn’t a mirage or some fairy tale dreamt up by the media.
  — Karen Guregian, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2022
• Lord knows, Chelsea could use a fairy tale ending here.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• The Austrian town of Hallstatt looks like a fairy tale come to life.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• Now comes Spain, which has been living its own fairy tale.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Olympic National Park looks straight out of a fairy tale or film.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
• More from the crew here Take a break from the city and check out Solvang and these 13 delightful things to do in the Danish fairy tale town.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• Once, the fairy tale might have been enough; now, the queen’s subjects — her audience — wanted all the tea.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• And yet who wants to sit through another fairy tale about a lovable lug with a dream?
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• No one seems better suited to tackle the dark fairy tale than del Toro.
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2022
• But maybe this is the fairy tale ending that the British monarchy always deserved.
  — Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• Netflix released the latest trailer for the stop-motion take on the fairy tale.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• Then, equally so, having this unique take on fairy tales.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2023
• The end of the fairy tale was the beginning of Diana’s emergence as a modern role model.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2022
• American faith in the Fed chairman is based on a kind of national fairy tale about the 1970s.
  — Wsj Opinion Staff, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• In this adaptation of the fairy tale, Goldilocks and the three bears live together in an isolated house in the woods.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• The famous fairy tale follows the journey of a young mermaid who falls in love with a prince and wants to gain a human soul.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• The play is a fairy tale about two slave children in the enchanted forest of Turtle Cove.
  — Charles Brandom, Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2023
• Nor is there any comfort in suggesting that the girl could have sprung from a book of old German fairy tales.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• López knew the film adaptation had to be a maximalist fairy tale—and just how to craft that.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• And we must not be deluded by the narrative logic of a fairy tale.
  — Sasha Dovzhyk, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
• Bryce Dallas Howard and Seth Gabel’s love story feels like a modern-day fairy tale.
  — Anneke Knot, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
• Or did the press not probe more because no one really wanted to shatter the fairy tale?
  — Caryn James, Town & Country, 21 July 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024