kelpies

plural of kelpie

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kelpies
Noun
  • The actor dressed up as the character Tingle from The Legend of Zelda — a 35-year-old man obsessed with forest fairies.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • But also fey and fairies and blah blah blah.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The electric vehicle company is rolling out a seasonal theme as a part of its software update that's made for ghouls, goblins and things that go bump in the night.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Ghosts and goblins, along with Pikachu and princesses, filled the grounds of Heritage Hill Historical Park over the weekend.
    Heather McRea, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The elves are striking this year.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Visitors won’t experience any flashing lights, dancing elves or blaring carols.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And thank the faeries for that.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Our love of gnomes is no secret, and a set of ten might just be enough for a holiday fix.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There's also the light fixtures decorated with gnomes, plaster figurines of knights and other medieval figures, and wrought iron decorations created by Cyril Colnik − whose work also can be seen at Milwaukee's Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum.
    Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Fernandez was raised in Pittsburgh by adoptive parents, also little people, who’d met at an annual meeting of Little People of America.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Mickey books him into a residency at the swanky Wynn Casino, passing the whole thing off as part of his newfound interest in giving back to the little people, not his bone-deep interest in looking out for himself.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Molly Ringwald’s Textured Bob One of the most memorable redheads of the ’80s, Molly Ringwald was also a short-hair icon, chopping her strands into bobs and pixies in a variety of textures.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 9 Oct. 2025
  • But among last night’s unusually high volume of pixies, the vibes were undeniably 1920s-coded.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On a recent weeklong daddy-and-me trip to Ireland, the duo donned sports coats and tweed hats to board planes, hunted for green apples in hotel gyms, and fueled up on Irish pub food for energy to chase leprechauns.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Smart general managers, George Paton included, hoard them the way evil leprechauns hoard their gold.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Kelpies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kelpies. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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