sprite

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Recent Examples of sprite Studying sprites helps scientists understand the electrical balance of the atmosphere, and even the potential impacts on communication technology and aviation. Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025 Fairies and sprites could reach across the thin membrane between worlds, leaving gifts, sharing secrets, or tugging human heroes from one universe to the other. Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 19 June 2025 In true Tribute Games fashion, the sprite work is phenomenal. Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 18 June 2025 The sharp, upscaled images work best on games with lots of horizontal and/or vertical lines and bright, single-colored sprites. Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sprite
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Noun
  • Dressed as a hot pink fairy, Alexa Bowers brought a drawing of Roan to give to the pop star.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Her perky protagonist notably navigated a romantic relationship with vampire Bill Compton and explored the roots of her own fairy ancestry.
    Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In winter, breath crystallizes in the air, and the animals resemble pale apparitions in an otherworldly landscape of snow and ice.
    Susan Portnoy, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Forced to participate in increasingly macabre rituals and tests, Giacomo is consumed by the sinister — as apparitions, ghosts and deadly rumors start to accumulate.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And all these dwarves and elves and humans go, ‘What?
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The special will be made available on Disney+ the following day, and the elves will head to ABC’s shelves later in the season.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Starks’ dream is to someday visit the Warren Occult Museum in Connecticut, which is closed to the public, but open to guests who book overnight stays at the home of late, famed ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Former teen heartthrob Devon Sawa briefly appeared at the end of Casper, playing the titular ghost's human form.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Popping in for story time and serving goblin snacks on holidays kept me tethered to my clingy girl.
    Nancy Prentice, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Some say the cave system would have connected the goblins from Hopkinsville to Hellier.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout an offseason devoted to expansive training, that spirit was on full display — including during the lively knockout games at Prentiss’ gym.
    Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Wrangler and Filson have come together to create a collection that captures the spirit of the American frontier.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Staff also report hearing phantom singing in the visitors' area and a mysterious spirit rearranging the coins in the gift shop register.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Future Antarctic and radio-neutrino arrays will decide if ANITA glimpsed a phantom or a frontier.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And all these dwarves and elves and humans go, ‘What?
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • These two dwarf galaxies orbit the Milky Way at distances of 163,000 and 200,000 light-years, respectively, moving through our galaxy's outer halo of hot gas not too dissimilar, but on a much smaller scale, from the Virgo Cluster's halo of hot gas.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Sprite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprite. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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