NOUN
- a story about fairies; told to amuse children
- an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
How To Use fairy tale In A Sentence
- This kid friendly fairy tale about an unsightly ogre was both heartwarming and very funny.
- Other people's fairy tales always is romantic, but my fairy tale but never be miserable.
- The fairy tale romance has come to an abrupt and totally unexpected end.
- His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife. Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon
- She listens as to a fairy tale, and then I tell her of the stellar crystals concealed in the rough crust of the amygdaloid. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
- Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany. Hitler's Golden Book
- The pitch: A kid has the ability to enter storyland, where he teams up with three other fairy tale characters to solve problems. A geek parent’s guide to kids’ edutainment
- Myths and rituals get worked over by time and human creativity until the originals show through only in glimmers; fairy tales gain and lose characters, nastiness, and motif depending on the era in which we live. Archive 2007-10-01
- And coming up in the second half of RELIABLE SOURCES, Bill Clinton blasts the press for perpetuating what he calls a fairy tale. CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2008
- So suspend your imagination for a moment, and look at the following fairy tales as a hard-core scientist might.