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How to use pixie in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Pixie means a playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature. Example: “Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing.”

Examples of pixie by meaning

nounA playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.

  • Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing.2005, Dan Keding, “The Pixies’ Bed”, in Dan Keding, Amy Douglas, editors, English Folktales, page 98
  • When she looked around, Mary saw four pixies flying toward her.2005, Kathryn Reyes, Mystery Door Manor and the Dragon Realm, page 72
  • The servant that had raised him, an elderly pixie called Rolog, had died.2007, Jeremy Phillips, The Wizardon Star, page 165

nounA cute, petite woman with short hair.

  • Then a pixie appears in the visitor window, round face, big brown eyes framed in thick liner, a tiny turned-up nose, red lips, inch-long blue-black hair so popular with the avant-garde.2006, Darnell Arnoult, Sufficient Grace, page 186
  • Petite and narrow-waisted, with a pixie flip of hair the exact color of coffee beans, Abigail could easily pass for sixteen in a pair of ripped jeans and an Abercrombie T-shirt.2009, Nicole Baart, The Moment Between, page 1
  • Like magic, Carla transformed from the dainty pixie into a hardcore, no-nonsense businesswoman right before his eyes.2011, L. E. Newell, Durty South Grind, page 138

More sentences with pixie

  • A doxy messenger can outfly a pixie by five klicks in optimal conditions.2023 December 12, Claire Wilkins, Courting the Prince of Moonlit Shadows, eGlobal Creative Publishing Inc., →ISBN. From the entry doxy
  • They either want a sharp-structured pixie or long, flowing Kardashian-esque extensions.2013 December 11, Jennifer Bhargava, “Nick Jenkins, 27”, in The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo., section “Current trends”, page 58. From the entry Kardashian-esque
  • Imps see pixies as uppity, giggly snobs, sniffing too many snootfuls of pollen.2009, Steve Berman, So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction, page 229. From the entry snootful
  • Reminiscent of 90s rom-com heroines, the bixie cut marries the versatility of the bob with the punkish edge of the pixie.2023 March, Mahalia Chang, “A look ahead”, in Vogue Australia, page 216. From the entry bixie
  • Pixie cried, "Food values my father's foot!1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Melbourne: Angus & Robertson, page 16. From the entry pudsy
  • Dionne herself is thinly drawn, a cool girl carrying tarot cards, a Rizla-rolling version of the manic pixie dream girl, tasked with redeeming the hero.2026 April 28, Shahidha Bari, “Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest review – painfully earnest tale of trauma and transition”, in The…. From the entry rizla
  • Between an asymmetrical bob and pixie cut, Houston paired her short hairdo with a glazed red lip, tonal purple eyeshadow, and chocolate blush.2024 September 8, India Espy-Jones, “17 Of Whitney Houston's Most Iconic Beauty Moments”, in ESSENCE. From the entry hairdo
  • There is a long list of such spirits, including dwarfs, elves, gnomes, brownies, pixies, leprechauns, thumblings (like Tom Thumb), and dactyli (which means fingers).1989, Rita Knipe, The Water of Life. From the entry thumbling
  • I mean, I know that love isn't just pixie dust and unicorn barf, but I'd like to think that there's something a little magical about love.2016, Jason Rossiter, March: A Good Man, unnumbered page. From the entry unicorn barf
  • Finally a matching, jewel-encrusted French hood covered her pixie cut, curving over her head from ear to ear with all the heft of the Crown Jewels.2014, Angeline Fortin, Taken: A Laird for All Time Novel, page 199. From the entry French hood
  • The place seems to have been fashioned as a dwelling for dryads and hamadryads, for nixies and pixies, and all the fabled spirits of forest and stream.1916, Rex Beach, Rainbow's End, published 2008, page 1. From the entry nixie
  • Pixie waved her hands with the Frenchiness of gesture which was the outcome of an education abroad, and which made an amusing contrast with an Irish accent, unusually pronounced.1914, Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, The Love Affairs of Pixie, The Religious Tract Society, page 13. From the entry Frenchiness
  • A precursor to the “manic pixie dreamgirl” trope of today, the femme-enfant’s youth was to be mooned over, her naïveté aspired to, her pure countenance captured in poetry and paint.2019 June, Pam Grossman, “The Dark Arts: Magic Makers and Craft Women”, in Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power, New…. From the entry manic pixie dreamgirl
  • This Vok, or Cole, undoubtedly flapdoodled the witnesses into thinking he was skinny then flipped open his false hump and let the demoniacal pixie out to do its fell business.2014, Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy. From the entry flapdoodle

Meaning of pixie

  1. noun A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
  2. noun A cute, petite woman with short hair.
  3. noun An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.

Full definition of pixie

Questions about pixie in a sentence

How do you use pixie in a sentence?
Pixie is used as a noun. For example: “Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing.”
What is a short sentence with pixie?
“Pixie cried, "Food values my father's foot!”
What does pixie mean?
Pixie means a playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.

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