How to Use Sleeping Beauty in a Sentence

Sleeping Beauty

noun
  • Disney fans will likely think of the princess in Sleeping Beauty who shares the name.
    — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 2 Jan. 2025
  • My favorite movie of all time, still today, is Sleeping Beauty.
    — Michael Cuby, Them., 14 May 2025
  • Flames licked at Sleeping Beauty Castle because of a gas leak.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 July 2025
  • The experimenters do not tell Sleeping Beauty either the outcome of the coin toss nor the day.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 4 May 2023
  • The second snap shows the pair kneeling on an array of pale-pink rose petals in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle, as more petals fall from above.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Visions of Sleeping Beauty entered his mind followed by the Angel of Death.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For the finale, Polina was escorted by her father out onto the ice while the waltz from Sleeping Beauty played.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Posing in front of the Sleeping Beauty castle, Roberts sat on a bench and had her arm around her son, who faced away from the camera and looked out over the moat.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
  • Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella are all romances about women who marry princes.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Apr. 2025
  • For the female dancers, there are swans and sugar plums and celebrated damsels under duress, like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The design was inspired by Gracie's mixed media art and the font from Sleeping Beauty's Gothic-style title sequence.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 6 June 2025
  • But this work shows us that solutions for a healthy future can exist in unexpected places and even in a critter like the tardigrade, a most unlikely Sleeping Beauty.
    — Ashleigh Papp, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The dishes were inspired by fairytales like Sleeping Beauty, with an emphasis on romance and the ethereal, Cheng told Vogue ahead of the event.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
  • Morris developed the park’s Sleeping Beauty castle which is comfortably one of the most iconic structures ever built by Disney.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • One photo shows Agruma’s engagement ring, while the other shows them with Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty castle in the background.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Videos shared online show the animatronic, fire-breathing villain from Sleeping Beauty abruptly going from breathing fire — a routine part of the show — to being engulfed in flames.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In photos shared by the Pitch Perfect star and her girlfriend showed the two in matching sweaters embracing in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle as pink and white flower petals cascade around them.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • One other concept detailed that a larger-than-life, 80-foot-tall statue of Goofy dressed as a clown would have been situated where the theme park destination's Sleeping Beauty Castle now stands.
    — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024

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