Example Sentences

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Dominic: It’s a little like when Professor Lockhart released that swarm of Cornish pixies in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”: They’re everywhere and constantly in your face.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

The Moors are a wondrous, lush world bursting with glowing flowers, fairies, ogres, pixies and talking tree giants.

From Washington Times • Jan. 14, 2020

"It's scarcely worth having a name for. I don't have a name for not believing in pixies."

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2019

And the 10-episode first season does spoof Disney, from “Lady and the Tramp” to street-wise Peter Pan-esque fairies — more swaggering TinkerBallers than Tinkerbell — who soar like gritty pixies over the castle of Dreamland.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2018

If only I had known about this before, I could have moved all the pixies far away from the cottage and the mines.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff