naiad

Example Sentences

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And now, as played with fierce physicality and grueling commitment by Annette Bening, Diana is a movie character: an impossible person who achieved the impossible, a naiad whose truer mythological counterpart might be Narcissus.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

I’d forgotten Cyane, the naiad, who rises from the river to beg Pluto not to take Proserpine.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022

Minthe was a naiad, a water nymph stationed at a tributary to one the better rivers of hell.

From Slate • May 4, 2012

Leighton set his youthful figure — a classical nymph or naiad — in a Mediterranean setting.

From Washington Post

A naiad had brought him a big platter of pastries, and as Tantalus spoke, his right hand chased a chocolate eclair across the judge’s- table.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan