Sentence examples for as fairy from inspiring English sources

To dismiss peak oil and global warming as fairy tales?

I knew by then that heroines and ingénues were "fair," as fairy tale convention dictated.

One reviewer gushed, "Books such as this are as rare as fairy dust".

Many of these cones, known as fairy chimneys, contain caves and labyrinths.

Wire coat hangers strapped to people's backs, however, don't ideally work as fairy wings.

Cupcakes used to be known as fairy cakes, until something happened a few years ago.

Cotton candy, then known as fairy floss, did make its debut at the fair.

MINUSES: As fairy tales go, this one is gutless and saccharine.

I like to think of them as fairy tales for adults.

By and large, however, the production's attitude toward its Broadway-as-fairy-tale plot is affectionately distant and stiff, like that of adults listening to someone else's 2-year-old saying the darned est things.

As fairy-tale readers knows, Aurora's troubles start when she's a baby.