Example Sentences

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She’s smaller, for one thing, with an improbably girlish face and a pixie’s cap of white hair.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2012

Recalled: 530 --The spring-launched Sky Dancers flying doll also launched 150 reports of injuries, including broken teeth, scratched corneas, a mild concussion and a broken rib, from the pixie's unpredictable trajectory.

From Time Magazine Archive

The branch stretched out and curled around the tiny pixie's body, trapping it in place.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Dolores Donet—that was the pixie's name—opened my door and deposited herself gingerly in a chair opposite me.

From Breeder Reaction by Marks, Winston K.

First thing I knew I was diving straight through the door of a water pixie's nest!

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher