Example Sentences

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“I always thought of her,” she says of one major player, “as more unscripted than liturgy, more faery than faithful.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020

According to Tolkien scholar John Garth, the story helps to establish “parameters of Tolkien’s world, enshrining aspects of good and evil in faery races and demiurgic beings who are locked in perpetual conflict.”

From The Verge • Aug. 1, 2018

That this new series – with its mythic beings, magic walls, faery wars and Night Kings – will surely be epic fantasy on a scale never before seen on TV.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2018

Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the waters and the wild, With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more fill of weeping than you can understand.”’

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick