FAIRY in a Sentence

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73 example sentences for FAIRY, such as:

1. He likes to listen to fairy stories.
2. Their love story sounds like a fairy tale.
3. It was like a king's canopy, a fairy king's.
4. Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased.
5. Cinderella's fairy godmother helped her go to the ball.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAIRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fairy
 n.  enchantment; illusion; imaginary supernatural being or spirit
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Suddenly it seemed as if he might be a sort of wood fairy who might be gone when she came into the garden again.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  It was like a king's canopy, a fairy king's.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  We knew them both; it was the fairy of Care, and the emissary of Fortune.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
5  So then the Fir Tree told the whole fairy tale, for he could remember every single word of it; and the little Mice jumped for joy up to the very top of the Tree.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE FIR TREE
6  But every flower stood in the sunshine, and dreamed its own fairy tale or its own story: and they all told her very many things, but not one knew anything of Kay.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
7  Yes, if a fairy tale would come of its own accord; but they are proud and haughty, and come only when they choose.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
8  "But that is no fairy tale," said the little boy, who was listening to the story.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
9  That was no fairy tale, 'tis true," said old Nanny; "but now it's coming.'
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
10  There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In JORINDA AND JORINDEL
11  Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In JORINDA AND JORINDEL
12  At last he came to the chamber where the fairy sat, with the seven hundred birds singing in the seven hundred cages.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In JORINDA AND JORINDEL
13  But scarcely had she touched it, before the fairy's prophecy was fulfilled; the spindle wounded her, and she fell down lifeless on the ground.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In BRIAR ROSE
14  And there was a good fairy too, who was fond of the princess, and helped her mother to watch over her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
15  Now the princess's horse was the fairy's gift, and it was called Falada, and could speak.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
Example Sentence:
1  Cinderella's fairy godmother helped her go to the ball.
2  The fairy godmother's magic charm turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful gown.
3  Sometimes the world tries to knock it out of you, but I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales.
4  I believe in the fairy story u wrote for me, and myself becomes the faint flower in the story.
5  The wicked fairy bewitched the princess and made her fall into a long sleep.
6  It is a fairy wood that has never a withered bough in it.
7  He likes to listen to fairy stories.
8  The teacher used to beguile her pupils with fairy tales.
9  Cinderella's fairy godmother rescued her from a life of drudgery.
10  Their love story sounds like a fairy tale.
11  For most little girls fairy tales are the stuff that dreams are made of, and their little lives are bounded by the fairyland.
12  There are many stories about nymph in Roman fairy tales.