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How to use sprite in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, verb

Sprite means a spirit; a soul; a shade. Example: “Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.”

Examples of sprite by meaning

verbTo draw a (specifically) pixel art sprite.

  • sprited the new NPCs

More sentences with sprite

  • Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.From the entry tile
  • We preshifted the game sprites to avoid having to redraw them at different positions during gameplay.From the entry preshift
  • We now have "nonbinary tree sprites" and kids changing their biology for social media likes.2025, Conrad Riker, Subverted: How Marxist Ideology and the Left Hijacked the West. From the entry catgender
  • Now, the environments, the sprites, the chunky voxel decorations?2022 October 12, Dominic Tarason, “Cultic might be the year's grungiest retro FPS”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023. From the entry scrunkly
  • But consider this: your typical atheist does not believe in fairies, goblins, sprites, water nymphs, demons, angels, ghosts or elves either.2010 March 30, A. C. Grayling, Ideas That Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry afairyist
  • Red sprites flash high above thunderstorm clouds.1999, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, Skies of fury: weather weirdness around the world, Simon and Schuster, page 99. From the entry red sprite
  • Each sprite has four colour slots, two of these always being taken up by black and white, mostly for the linework, shading and highlights.2026 August 29, CandyEvie, 0:28 from the start, in These shiny pokemon used to look so much cooler..., via YouTube. From the entry poke
  • Some skilled pixel artists even use unexpected colours in the shading within their sprites, using complementary colours to produce an enticing artwork.2021, Cindy Lee, “Best Practices for Pixel Art”, in The Digital Gaming Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN. From the entry pixel artist
  • Rather than allocating resources toward longevity, pool sprite directs its efforts towards rapid growth and speedy reproduction to survive in its ephemeral environment.2006, J. Phil Gibson, Plant Ecology, Chelsea House Publishers, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry pool sprite
  • Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in…. From the entry seem
  • O freeze my soul in fitful sleep lest wind-filled sprites bequim the air and take us singly or in threes in mad agog or lumpsome nub, aghast to Milford Haven.2009, S. Purcell, Popular Shakespeare. From the entry lumpsome

Meaning of sprite

  1. noun A spirit; a soul; a shade.
  2. noun An apparition; a ghost.
  3. noun An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.

Full definition of sprite

Questions about sprite in a sentence

How do you use sprite in a sentence?
Sprite is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.”
What is a short sentence with sprite?
“sprited the new NPCs”
What does sprite mean?
Sprite means a spirit; a soul; a shade.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprite (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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