How to Use fairy-tale in a Sentence

fairy-tale

1 of 2 adjective
  • There’s a nice glow to this film perched halfway between fairy-tale and handmade indie dramedy.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Instead, Freeman hit the walk-off home run — and how about the guy who barely could walk delivering his own fairy-tale ending?
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • And, the tulle fabric and off-shoulder design seem to add a bit of a fairy-tale feel to it.
    Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Plenty of us dream about, read about, and fantasize about fairy-tale endings.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The film revolves around self-discovery amidst social pressures, but unlike Mean Girls, the movie has a fairy-tale twist.
    Jane Lacroix, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Don’t miss the breathtaking beauty of Hallstatt, a fairy-tale village nestled between the mountains and the lake.
    Joni Sweet, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • She’s realer, funnier and more nuanced than that and not about to go quietly once her fairy-tale romance ends and Ivan makes a run for it.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Mont-Saint-Michel in France tops the list of travelers' favorite fairy-tale destinations.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 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
  • The assault is never discussed again, which is problematic though consistent with the fairy-tale tone of the series.
    Kari Sonde, TIME, 21 May 2024
  • 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
  • This fairy-tale cottage gazebo illustrates how to dress for success.
    Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 May 2024
  • 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
  • Which is to say, viewers will be seated for season 7, which features a cast from the Washington, D.C. area looking for their own fairy-tale endings.
    Eliza Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The Kardashians star added a matching lace mini skirt and ivory Vivienne Westwood mini handbag to complete the fairy-tale look.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
  • Her initial impression of him after their very first encounter was not exactly the stuff of fairy-tale romances.
    Jeremy Helligar, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
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fairy tale

2 of 2 noun
  • Everything he told us about his happy marriage was just a fairy tale.
  • This is not at all the fairy tale that I was f------ promised.
    Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
  • On the field, the Mets’ journey here was its own fairy tale.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The movie, in many ways, seems like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Think of the Met Gala as a royal ball in fairy tale movies.
    Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 6 May 2024
  • 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
  • The story of David and Lynn Angell sounds like a fairy tale.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • For fans, the first few weeks of 2024—one of the rare times that the band went off the grid—seemed to signal that the fairy tale was over.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024
  • As a child, she was struck by the ubiquity of the number 3 in her fairy tales.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Most of these fictions also make use of the fairy tale.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Though there are moments of romance, the show is no fairy tale.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • To them the Orient was still a fairy tale, and a book of mysteries.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 June 2024
  • This wasn’t a mirage or some fairy tale dreamt up by the media.
    Karen Guregian, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2022
  • Wilhelm even revised a fairy tale with the episode in mind.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Lord knows, Chelsea could use a fairy tale ending here.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Thorn: This sharp name calls to mind fairy tale thorn bushes.
    Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The Austrian town of Hallstatt looks like a fairy tale come to life.
    Josh Feldman, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • That was just like being in a fairy tale, a medieval fairy tale.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2024
  • Then between two fairy tale chateaux, the estuary of the Gironde.
    Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Now comes Spain, which has been living its own fairy tale.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • One, crowned with a series of ink-black towers, looked straight out of a fairy tale.
    Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2022
  • Fuches seems to have found himself in some kind of fairy tale.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Life presents you with something of a fairy tale today.
    Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2022
  • There is a beauty to it, but there’s a rawness to it as well, and there is a sort of dark fairy tale feel to it.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But to be a golden egg in the fairy tale, there would have to be a windfall of money from these sources.
    Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The dirt in south-central Minnesota, where the Twin Cities are, is fairy tale dirt.
    Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Walter says the creature reminded him of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale; Iris responds that the original is a rape fantasy.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024

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