How to Use Peter Pan in a Sentence

Peter Pan

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Definition of Peter Pannext
  • Polish it off with a Peter Pan collar attachment, some heinous blush, and a bottle of booze in your purse.
    — Them, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The park has replaced the earworm with a song from Peter Pan.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2023
  • My nose looks kind of pushed up like Peter Pan or something.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Raye Zaragoza: think that the pillars of the story is still the Peter Pan that everyone knows and loves.
    — Lisa Vernon Sparks, Charlotte Observer, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The ’90s are trendy again, and the millennials who lived through them the first time have a bit of a Peter Pan complex.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Barrie was a friend of the royal family and is best known as the creator of Peter Pan.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Lyles attended church dressed as Peter Pan and climbed on the shelves at Costco.
    — Sean Gregory, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • Based on the classic Peter Pan, sailors who are over 21 will find a secret whiskey bar for perhaps the best haircut of their lives.
    — James Barrett, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The ropes hoisting Peter Pan are lashed across the upper part of the set with utter disregard for the poor actor’s head.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Both of their coats were long and double-breasted with Peter Pan collars.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Like Pinocchio, Bambi and Peter Pan also have standalone films in the works.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • Enter Peter Pan’s Flight, which typically has a line out the door (with a long indoor stretch).
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Princess Charlotte, eight, looked adorable in a blue-and-white striped dress with a Peter Pan collar, a little white cardigan, and navy slide-on sneakers.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 July 2023
  • Antiquarian, winner of the Peter Pan on May 11, should go off at a long price.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
  • Charlotte, meanwhile, wore a striped dress with a Peter Pan collar, while her brother George wore a blue polo and green pants.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • His father took him on Peter Pan’s Flight, one of the park’s original attractions.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In recent years, Peter Pan Seafoods posted a price in mid June, which was welcomed by fishermen.
    — Jessie Sheldon, Jack Darrell, Christina McDermott, Corinne Smith, Kdlg News, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • While many film versions of the Peter Pan story have been made (including cult-classic Hook), none so far have managed to hit at the box office.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 8 July 2020
  • And Kelley followed that up pretty quickly with an offer to play Peter Pan.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The Peter Pan ride was a favorite according to her Instagram story!
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Here, Disney fans can live out the familiar fairy tales of their childhood aboard classic attractions, like Peter Pan’s Flight.
    — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2024
  • For her Vogue cover shoot, Dua traded off a ton of different hairstyles, including this sleek Peter Pan cut.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Utilizing the latest technologies, the parade will bring to life beloved characters from Peter Pan, Frozen, Encanto, and more.
    — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Students there will put on a play about Peter Pan this year and were looking forward to using a new playground, which will have adaptive elements for kids in wheelchairs and with other special needs.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2024
  • At another performance, a dummy version of Peter Pan fell to the floor prematurely.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Just like Peter Pan, there’s a growing cohort of Gen Zers who are refusing to grow up and embrace life’s major milestones to adulthood, like getting some form of qualification or joining the world of work.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
  • Now it's been given new life as a live action film, ensuring many more kids will be enthralled by the story of Peter Pan's magical adventure into Neverland.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Dorian Gray slows the aging process for people who are older, while Wolverine reverses aging, and Peter Pan inhibits aging.
    — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 1 Aug. 2023
  • There was the Newfoundland (who later turned out not to be a Newfoundland) who had been adopted to fulfill a Peter Pan–esque fantasy of a devoted dog nanny, but acted so aloof that his owners put him on meds.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • There, local shoppers and brand devotees from afar stroll in at a steady clip and walk away with lime green zebra print dresses, lug-sole boots with exaggerated platforms, and dandyish white blouses with oversized Peter Pan collars.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Feb. 2023

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