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How to use fey in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Fey means about to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death. Example: “Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.”

Examples of fey by meaning

adjectiveAbout to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.

  • Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 18, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC
  • Then Fëanor laughed as one fey, and he cried: “None and none!1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

adjectiveOverrefined, affected.

  • His interlocutor was whimsical if not downright fey.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
  • He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse.2009, Robert Cohen, Amateur Barbarians, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 16
  • Guadalupe was a fey mexicana with long braids and a taste for embroidered Oaxacan blouses and overwrought indigenous jewelry, and also a former university student like Araceli.2011, Héctor Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, →ISBN

adjectiveStrange or otherworldly.

  • Gratefully she crooned with them, so inimitably that old Christine Inglis, on her way to early Mass, vowed the girl was fey.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia...
  • Underwood to be an intense, profane little man, whose father in a fey fit of humor christened Braxton Bragg, a name Mr.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

verbTo cleanse.

  • to fey a drain or ditch

More sentences with fey

  • Mara watched her misshod feet with fey detachment as the person that was herself left the glade.2012, Raymond E. Feist, Janny Wurts, Mistress of the Empire, page 67. From the entry misshod
  • He was instantly attracted to Gladys's pert, fey humor and her good nature.2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 1, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, page 11. From the entry pert
  • "E-smoking" is a bit of a handful, "Misting" sounds far too fey, "Vaporizing" or "Vaping" has drug connotations.2007 December 18, SmokeyJoe, "Well it's not smoking....So what is it?"…. From the entry vape
  • Spiritlings are tiny fey creatures no bigger than half an inch across that inhabit various wild places throughout Norrath.2002, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Carl Gilchrist, Angel Leigh McCoy, EverQuest Role-Playing Game Monsters of Norrath. From the entry spiritling
  • The name gongfermor comes from the Saxon word gang meaning to go off, and fermor from fey, to cleanse.1998, Julie L. Horan, Sitting Pretty: An Uninhibited History of the Toilet, Robson Books, page 33. From the entry gongfermor
  • Suddenly it was OK to be weird or gay or geeky, a fey boy or a tough girl, a weed or a nerd, wonky-toothed or boss-eyed.2016 January 11, Stuart Maconie, “How Starman David Bowie fell to earth and ch-cha-changed an entire generation”, in Irish Mirror. From the entry boss-eyed
  • Hamlet is fey, as heroes have been since the dawn of literature ; but was ever feydom so wonderfully set forth, or a doomed hero more adorable?2005, John Dover Wilson, What happens in Hamlet. From the entry feydom

Meaning of fey

  1. adjective About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
  2. adjective Dying; dead.
  3. adjective Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.

Full definition of fey

Questions about fey in a sentence

How do you use fey in a sentence?
Fey is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.”
What is a short sentence with fey?
“to fey a drain or ditch”
What does fey mean?
Fey means about to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.

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