How to Use Cinderella in a Sentence

Cinderella

noun
  • This open-back, drop-waist stunner in an icy Cinderella blue?
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 2025-05-28
  • The 14-year-old’s life is tough, much like Cinderella’s.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 2025-05-16
  • Afghanistan is the Cinderella story though still way down in rankings.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 2023-10-31
  • Being led to the playoffs on a Cinderella run for the ages by a guy named Jet?
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 2025-01-17
  • This isn’t the first time the Cinderella star has spoken out against the Vogue cover.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-08-12
  • The Kings are the league’s Cinderella story this season, but this is the nightmare matchup for them.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2023-04-13
  • While the makeovers are engaging, moving and fun — who doesn’t love a Cinderella story?
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 2025-04-28
  • Can the Orioles continue their Cinderella run from worst to first?
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 2024-03-27
  • That team, which is known as the Bright Stars, has been writing a Cinderella story of its own.
    — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 2024-07-26
  • As for the glass slipper in Ani’s twisted Cinderella story?
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 2024-11-23
  • What felt like a Cinderella story at the start is exposed as a Faustian bargain with a sable coat thrown in.
    — Lily Burana, Rolling Stone, 2024-11-04
  • Montgomery High School couldn’t pry the slipper off Cinderella’s foot.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2024-03-08
  • Like the classic fairytale of Cinderella, Benedict met a woman at a ball.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 2024-06-17
  • We’re held captive by the Cinderella myth, the idea that these transformations are abrupt and happen overnight.
    — Joanne Lipman, Fortune, 2023-04-13
  • Singer and actress Brandy played Cinderella in a 1997 remake of the film.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 2023-05-27
  • Cinderella finally found her perfect glass slipper.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, there’s a place for the fantasy of Cinderella’s glass slipper or Snow White's hope that someday her prince will come.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 2024-11-22
  • Don't call her Cinderella Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams paused the show a few songs in to replace her footwear.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 2023-06-06
  • As summer heats up, JT aims to make her stamp on the new season with the upcoming mixtape, City Cinderella.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 2024-07-02
  • From Cinderella’s steady climb to a tragedy’s steep fall, these shapes help audiences anticipate what’s coming while keeping them engaged.
    — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The finale almost has a Cinderella element to it with the clock striking midnight and Nan’s fairytale coming to an end.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025
  • There are pops of deep blues and greens, too, with the colorway reflecting the high-latitude parts of the world Cinderella Noel IV will cruise.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2023-12-27
  • Concept art image of Disney's new color pallette for Cinderella Castle.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Another version envisioned a Cinderella Palace along with a dining room dedicated to the princess.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
  • After just over a year of dating, the couple got engaged back at the theme park, in front of Cinderella’s castle, on Valentine’s Day in 2023.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 2024-10-04
  • With familiar faces staying at the top, new contenders emerging and the ultimate Cinderella story, the 2024 high school football season in the Southland had it all.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
  • But the Cinderella Castle change wasn’t the only Disney park news announced at Destination D23.
    — Colson Thayer, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Loïs Boisson and Victoria Mboko’s rises have all the hallmarks of a tennis fairytale, the sudden thrust into stardom that constitutes the Cinderella story, one of the most enduring archetypes in sports.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Cinderella Man is unalloyed emotional manipulation, and while the cast all dig into the maudlin hooey — Paul Giamatti is especially good as the crusty trainer — nothing here has the spark of real life.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Throughout the 2000s, the actor smoldered on series like Dawson's Creek (2001–2002), and One Tree Hill (2003–2012), not to mention the films A Cinderella Story (2004) and House of Wax (2005).
    — Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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