How to Use Peter Pan in a Sentence

Peter Pan

noun
  • My nose looks kind of pushed up like Peter Pan or something.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
  • The park has replaced the earworm with a song from Peter Pan.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But the extended Peter Pan metaphor drags the whole thing down.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The show takes a central Peter Pan analogy a bit too far.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The Peter Pan collar and gathered puff sleeves make this set of two rompers extra sweet.
    — Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Both of their coats were long and double-breasted with Peter Pan collars.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 28 Dec. 2022
  • For a long time, I was used to being the girl who sings ‘Peter Pan’ to people.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Peter Pan is the avatar of eternal childhood, refusal to become a stodgy old pirate.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • For one thing, the parallel between these kids and the story of Peter Pan is all wrong.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Lyles attended church dressed as Peter Pan and climbed on the shelves at Costco.
    — Sean Gregory, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • Kerry was called in while the artists and producers were planning Peter Pan.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
  • Barrie was a friend of the royal family and is best known as the creator of Peter Pan.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Williams played Peter Banning, Peter Pan grown up.
    — Cynthia Pelayo, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • Steven Spielberg's tale of a grown-up Peter Pan was one of Paltrow's first projects.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The Peter Pan collar fans out into a pretty display with fluffy ruffles to boot.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Polish it off with a Peter Pan collar attachment, some heinous blush, and a bottle of booze in your purse.
    — Them, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Most of the Peter Pan characters are even given those character’s names.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • One option would be to add thyroxine to a body of water with Peter Pan tadpoles to make some of them grow into adults.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The ropes hoisting Peter Pan are lashed across the upper part of the set with utter disregard for the poor actor’s head.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Instantly the story of who Peter Pan was rearranged itself in my mind.
    — Cynthia Pelayo, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • Secondly, that is a movie, not a book, and nope, Rufio was not in the original Peter Pan.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The ’90s are trendy again, and the millennials who lived through them the first time have a bit of a Peter Pan complex.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Enter Peter Pan’s Flight, which typically has a line out the door (with a long indoor stretch).
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Like Pinocchio, Bambi and Peter Pan also have standalone films in the works.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • Based on the classic Peter Pan, sailors who are over 21 will find a secret whiskey bar for perhaps the best haircut of their lives.
    — James Barrett, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
  • His father took him on Peter Pan’s Flight, one of the park’s original attractions.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Much of the tension the show tries to create is undermined by this Peter Pan framing and by the goofiness of the kids in adult bodies.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Charlotte, meanwhile, wore a striped dress with a Peter Pan collar, while her brother George wore a blue polo and green pants.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • Give us conflicted villains who do more than twirl mustaches (or read ominous passages from Peter Pan).
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This production of Peter Pan is flying straight toward a fiasco.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2026

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