Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for little people
Noun
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The entrance to elf land was about to be democratized.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 July 2025 -
That excitement, though, is never quite fulfilled in this story of two elf brothers (voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt) who try to complete a spell to bring their father back to life for a day.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Monster cats, women with ravenous mouths in the back of their heads, mountain goblins, mermaids with carp bodies, foxes that transform into samurai messengers—the list goes on.—
Katherine Larson
July 16,
Literary Hub,
16 July 2025
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In fact, Bolg is the name of a goblin prince from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Prepare for more possible flack from online trolls, though.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
8 Aug. 2025
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In a video shared on social media, the hockey team shared the close call between a wild grizzly bear and the team’s mascot, Buoy the sea troll, while the team was out fly fishing in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, according to UPI.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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For instance, people used to hang iron on their doors at night to keep faeries and demons out of their homes (talismans) and a knock on the door in the middle of the night was to be ignored, for surely some evil spirit was lurking outside.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Plastic gnomes, pink flamingos, and, even worse, MAGA signs are only the beginning.—
Ashley Baker,
Air Mail,
19 July 2025
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From nearly 100,000 sports cards to collections of fingernail clippings, brewery coasters, oil lamps, gnomes, porcelain pigs, Elvis Presley or Princess Diana memorabilia and even taxidermy displays of tigers, the list was long.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 2025
Noun
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With a short base cut, tapered front locks, and slightly longer layers, the Trinity cut rides the line between a pixie cut and a bob, borrowing from the cyberpunk and boyish aesthetics of the movies.—
Jeanne Ballion,
Glamour,
10 Aug. 2025
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But he really gets worked up by the concept of Anna in Tess’s body with a pixie cut and a low-cut dress.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Vulture,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Schreiber starred on the big screen in 2018's Den of Thieves and memorably played the feisty leprechaun Mad Sweeney on Starz's American Gods.—
Derek Lawrence,
EW.com,
29 July 2025
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What do leprechauns do with their unfinished dinner?—
Nicole Harris,
Parents,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Tell me a little bit about the technical side of filming a dwarf and an elf together.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
13 Oct. 2022
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Other new characters include Disa, the first female dwarf ever shown in the Lord of the Rings series.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2022
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