trolls

1. In Norse mythology , repulsive dwarfs who lived in caves or other hidden places. They would steal children and property but hated noise. The troll in the children's story “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” for example, lives under a bridge and is enraged when he hears the goats crossing the bridge.

Example Sentences

Until concern trolls like Sarah Ditum came along trying to cover it up again.

From The Daily Beast

From creeps and trolls to hoaxes and hackers, these are the things that made us want to say sayonara to the Interwebs this year.

From The Daily Beast

According to a February 2014 study entitled Trolls Just Want To Have Fun conducted by Canadian doctors Erin E. Buckels, Paul.

From The Daily Beast

What separates the trolls from the exuberant or opinionated is anonymity.

From The Daily Beast

Crow explained that his site put preventative measures in place to preclude trolls from reigning.

From The Daily Beast

On the way back he passed the dwelling of a band of trolls at enmity with those from whom he had stolen the cup.

From Project Gutenberg

Some peasants who were once passing by these mounds prayed the trolls to give them some beer.

From Project Gutenberg

In Thyholm, a district of Denmark, there is a range of lofty mounds formerly inhabited by trolls.

From Project Gutenberg

In the latter case the man took refuge in the church, where he was besieged by the trolls until morning.

From Project Gutenberg

For a moment he stood, running through all he had learned about the trolls which infested these northlands.

From Project Gutenberg