How to Use fairy-tale in a Sentence

fairy-tale

1 of 2 adjective
  • But that’s all part of the film’s fairy-tale flipness.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The third time, the sequence, in fairy-tale fashion, went just right.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 Mar. 2026
  • How to plan the perfect trip to this fairy-tale Flemish city.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Is this a riddle assayed by a fairy-tale creature?
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026
  • Their fairy-tale ending might not be so happy after all.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This fairy-tale coastal town has long avoided street addresses.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • My father’s fairy-tale pronouncement was many years ago now.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The debate over who gets to embody a fairy-tale princess carries a new weight right now.
    — Patricia Alfonso Tortolani, Allure, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Carmel is also filled with fairy-tale cottages, art galleries, and wine rooms.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2025
  • And, the tulle fabric and off-shoulder design seem to add a bit of a fairy-tale feel to it.
    — Poppy Morgan, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • And, the tulle fabric and off-shoulder design seem to add a bit of a fairy-tale feel to it.
    — Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Certainly, this is no fairy-tale romance.
    — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The swan, after all, is the national bird of this fairy-tale kingdom.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Plenty of us dream about, read about, and fantasize about fairy-tale endings.
    — Irene Kim, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2024
  • As a few quarterbacks could tell you, sometimes a change of scenery leads to a fairy-tale ending.
    — Dianna Russini, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The final message is a little too clear; the fairy-tale setting makes the fairy-tale plot too easy.
    — Sarah Chihaya, New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Like all fairy-tale creatures, the original Santa and his elves are very dark.
    — Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Turning it into a venue only took 48 hours — a fairy-tale ending.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 18 June 2025
  • This fairy-tale cottage gazebo illustrates how to dress for success.
    — Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 May 2024
  • Cute villages, dirndls and lederhosen, fairy-tale castles.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2026
  • Is their fairy-tale apocalypse — and the rebirth implied in it — sparked by the actions of the adults around them?
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And these deep wood tones on the cabinets or the floors kind of felt like a Grimms’ fairy-tale aesthetic.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 June 2026
  • This fairy-tale chateau is the perfect base for an autumn adventure in Camden.
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a nice glow to this film perched halfway between fairy-tale and handmade indie dramedy.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
  • White hills billowed around me as far as the eye could see, and the town below was nestled between peaks like a fairy-tale village.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Also two of the tycoon’s grandchildren, little fairy-tale blondies just made to be eaten.
    — David Denby, Vulture, 3 July 2025
  • Brands explode onto social media with fairy-tale success.
    — Mina Haque, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • There were no fairy-tale endings in Love Is Blind season 9, but that was four whole months ago.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There is a swoony fairy-tale quality to the queen’s jewels, shoes, fans, feathers, rouge pots, and perfume bottles.
    — Sarah Hyde, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025

fairy tale

2 of 2 noun
  • Everything he told us about his happy marriage was just a fairy tale.
  • But the fairy tale didn’t last.
    — Andy Scholes, CNN Money, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The fairy tale is over — at least for now.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Weapons is, at its core, a dark fairy tale.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Like any good fairy tale, there’s a touch of kismet.
    — Cheryl Rodewig, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The wedding was fit for a fairy tale.
    — Robin Raven, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • It’s been a fairy tale season for all of us.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
  • So why did this fairy tale speak to me so strongly?
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • This could be my fairy tale, my path, my baby.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
  • And maybe that's someone's fairy tale come true.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Or throw it back with some age-old fables or fairy tales.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Last season was a fairy tale, in the best sense of the word.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Even though the movie looks less like a warning than a fairy tale.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • But a fairy tale for grown-ups and a fairy tale at odds with itself.
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But life in a stately home isn't quite the fairy tale it's made out to be.
    — Southern Living, 12 June 2020
  • This show is unique in the sense that each scene is a snippet from a fairy tale.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Ray might as well be a character out of a dark fairy tale.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The fairy tale weirdo in me has no choice but to love the wolf with wolves for hands and feet.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
  • This is a real-life fairy tale if there ever was one.
    — María Mérida, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Stuff like that is as predictable as the ending to a fairy tale.
    — Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 2 Jan. 2025
  • This wasn’t a mirage or some fairy tale dreamt up by the media.
    — Karen Guregian, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2022
  • Though there are moments of romance, the show is no fairy tale.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Up to this point, Williams’s story may sound like a fairy tale.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 24 June 2026
  • There’s not always a fairy tale ending.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Yet like any good fairy tale, the mood is unsettled, the scene askew.
    — Will McGrath, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The storm had an eerie beauty from the air, like the villain in a fairy tale.
    — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2018
  • My grass was a bright shade of fairy tale green, the trees were budding and my tulips had bloomed.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Didn’t all young people go off to seek their fortune, like in the fairy tales?
    — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • That’s like a fairy tale for her, all that happened on the course of that journey.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 8 June 2021
  • Your little prince and princess will be charmed by these pumpkins straight from a fairy tale.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025

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