Sentence examples for pixie from inspiring English sources
The word 'pixie' is correct and usable in written English
It is generally used as an alternative word for a fairy, especially a mischievous one. For example, "The pixie had a mischievous glint in her eye as she caused the gardener's tools to fly away."
noun
A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
"I'm playing a mad pixie alongside Lesley Manville and Juno Temple – if they've kept our scenes".
The label showed its rebellious side with short black dresses complete with lace detailing and giant bows at the back, many accessorised with pointed pixie hats.
On a cold morning, in a corner of a café in northern Paris, huddled in a studded black leather jacket, perched on a tiny stool and clutching a citron chaud, Émilie Dequenne looks for all the world like a curious and cheerful pixie come to spend time among us humans.
We aren't fielding an absurdly cute barefoot pixie girl like Iceland, or making a hard-hitting political statement like the Hungarians.
Transcending the genre Imitate or die Consumer champion Old parts, but a new whole E-hinterland For all the PCs in China Does not compute Splendid miscegenation Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsJack MaoThe Alibaba group's founder and leader is the sharp-featured Jack Ma, a man reporters cannot resist likening to a pixie or an elf.
His predecessor, John Browne, was in many ways a remarkable chief executive, a man who sprinkled pixie dust onto the company's black gold while also boosting its market capitalisation ninefold.
Mr Galliano is undoubtedly a talented designer who sprinkled Dior's once dowdy fashion house with pixie-dust.
And his world-view was sprinkled with neo-conservative pixie-dust.Somewhere in this transformation Mr Cheney seems to have lost his most prized political asset his judgment.
All came to the "Alifest" to sit at the feet of Jack Ma, a pixie-sized, boyish 42-year-old who is the founder of Alibaba, an e-commerce firm, and is regarded as the godfather of the internet in China.
Pilgrim-poets still gather in the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya, another great Chisti saint and poet, in Delhi, wearing the yellow pixie-hats of the order's initiates.Under Chisti influence, low-caste Hindus converted to Islam, to escape their low birth.
Martin "broke the internet" this weekend purely through showing his cheery face on the same stage as pixie-sized Bruno Mars and Beyoncé, who was pant-free (albeit tune-light) and flanked by a marvellous gang of high-kicking, stocking-clad Black Panthers.
