How to Use fairy-tale in a Sentence
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The third time, the sequence, in fairy-tale fashion, went just right.
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Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
29 Mar. 2023
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How to plan the perfect trip to this fairy-tale Flemish city.
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Lindsay Cohn,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Nov. 2023
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And, the tulle fabric and off-shoulder design seem to add a bit of a fairy-tale feel to it.
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Hyphensocial Contributors,
Rolling Stone,
5 Oct. 2024
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And, the tulle fabric and off-shoulder design seem to add a bit of a fairy-tale feel to it.
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Poppy Morgan,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2023
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The swan, after all, is the national bird of this fairy-tale kingdom.
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Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2024
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Is their fairy-tale apocalypse — and the rebirth implied in it — sparked by the actions of the adults around them?
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Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Dec. 2023
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Like all fairy-tale creatures, the original Santa and his elves are very dark.
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Katie Rife,
Vulture,
16 Nov. 2024
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The City of Angels is known for glitz and glamour, palm trees, celebrity sightings, and fairy-tale fantasies.
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Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Feb. 2024
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Like an old walled garden, Oasy has a fairy-tale quality.
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Sarah Moss,
Travel + Leisure,
2 June 2023
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Otherwise, don't miss the Petite France neighborhood to see the fairy-tale houses along the Rhine.
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Elly Leavitt,
House Beautiful,
21 Aug. 2023
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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.
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Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2023
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Plenty of us dream about, read about, and fantasize about fairy-tale endings.
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Irene Kim,
Vogue,
15 Sep. 2024
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This fairy-tale chateau is the perfect base for an autumn adventure in Camden.
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Pamela Wright,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Aug. 2023
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Disney is embracing a darker side of its fairy-tale world.
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Erin Clack,
Peoplemag,
8 Feb. 2024
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The film revolves around self-discovery amidst social pressures, but unlike Mean Girls, the movie has a fairy-tale twist.
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Jane Lacroix,
People.com,
2 Nov. 2024
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Don’t miss the breathtaking beauty of Hallstatt, a fairy-tale village nestled between the mountains and the lake.
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Joni Sweet,
Forbes,
20 Sep. 2024
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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.
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Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Oct. 2024
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Instead, Freeman hit the walk-off home run — and how about the guy who barely could walk delivering his own fairy-tale ending?
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Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2024
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There’s a nice glow to this film perched halfway between fairy-tale and handmade indie dramedy.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2024
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Mont-Saint-Michel in France tops the list of travelers' favorite fairy-tale destinations.
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Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Nov. 2024
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Without realizing it, the Kaluzhnis had been living with Schulz’s fairy-tale scenes for decades.
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Adam Kirsch,
The New Republic,
6 Apr. 2023
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Isabelle is a charming fairy-tale prince, but also the ruthless prince from Machiavelli.
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Olivia Waite,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2023
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The village is studded with exotic-looking kiosks—buildings on stilts—and fairy-tale spires and towers.
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Merrie Monteagudo,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 June 2023
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The following spring, William and Kate wed in a fairy-tale ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
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Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
10 Mar. 2023
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The assault is never discussed again, which is problematic though consistent with the fairy-tale tone of the series.
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Kari Sonde,
TIME,
21 May 2024
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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.
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Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
16 Feb. 2023
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This fairy-tale cottage gazebo illustrates how to dress for success.
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Abby Wolner,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 May 2024
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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.
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Lindsay Cohn,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2023
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Its telltale mix of French and German culture comes to life through the fairy-tale architecture, culinary traditions, and small-town charm.
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Lindsay Cohn,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Dec. 2024
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And the only thing that’s deliberately stylized is the fairy-tale compositions.
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Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
20 Dec. 2024
- Everything he told us about his happy marriage was just a fairy tale.
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The place was spooky and silent—the woods of a fairy tale.
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Margaret Talbot,
The New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2021
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This is not at all the fairy tale that I was f------ promised.
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Nicole Briese,
Peoplemag,
20 May 2024
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On the field, the Mets’ journey here was its own fairy tale.
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Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Oct. 2024
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The movie, in many ways, seems like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
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Paul Grein,
Billboard,
24 Feb. 2023
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Think of the Met Gala as a royal ball in fairy tale movies.
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Mariyam Muhammad,
The Enquirer,
6 May 2024
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This show is unique in the sense that each scene is a snippet from a fairy tale.
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John Benson,
cleveland,
7 Nov. 2022
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The hero in this fairy tale is one big, bad Badddooooooo!
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Jeff Seidel,
Detroit Free Press,
6 Apr. 2021
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Even though the movie looks less like a warning than a fairy tale.
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New York Times,
13 May 2021
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Van Cleef & Arpels is bringing its fairy tale to the West Coast.
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Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
20 Apr. 2021
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As in a fairy tale, her likeness was soon on the cover of Vogue.
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Chris Wiley,
The New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2024
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Will the young doctor let go and spend the holidays in a fairy tale?
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Leah Hall,
Country Living,
28 Nov. 2022
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The story of David and Lynn Angell sounds like a fairy tale.
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Leada Gore | [email protected],
al,
11 Sep. 2021
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Her methods make the money feel like the end of a fairy tale, when a white knight swoops in to save the day.
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Diti Kohli,
BostonGlobe.com,
15 Nov. 2022
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Stuff like that is as predictable as the ending to a fairy tale.
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Aamina Inayat Khan,
StyleCaster,
2 Jan. 2025
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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.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
22 June 2024
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As a child, she was struck by the ubiquity of the number 3 in her fairy tales.
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Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2024
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Most of these fictions also make use of the fairy tale.
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Washington Post,
18 Mar. 2022
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Though there are moments of romance, the show is no fairy tale.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
22 Mar. 2024
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That’s like a fairy tale for her, all that happened on the course of that journey.
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Brady Gerber,
Vulture,
8 June 2021
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To them the Orient was still a fairy tale, and a book of mysteries.
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The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 June 2024
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This wasn’t a mirage or some fairy tale dreamt up by the media.
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Karen Guregian,
Hartford Courant,
31 July 2022
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Within the hour, as if in a fairy tale, Bree’s son has been snatched away, car-seat and all.
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Tom Nolan,
WSJ,
9 Apr. 2021
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Wilhelm even revised a fairy tale with the episode in mind.
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Jennifer Wilson,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2024
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Yet like any good fairy tale, the mood is unsettled, the scene askew.
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Will McGrath,
Star Tribune,
2 Apr. 2021
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At the time, Diana and Charles’ love story seemed like a fairy tale.
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Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Nov. 2020
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Lord knows, Chelsea could use a fairy tale ending here.
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Globe Columnist,
BostonGlobe.com,
5 Oct. 2022
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Thorn: This sharp name calls to mind fairy tale thorn bushes.
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Taylor Grothe,
Parents,
9 Oct. 2024
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However, the world of sports betting is not always a fairy tale.
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Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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Hardy’s version is an odd but charming fairy tale that lands somewhere between tragedy and hope.
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Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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