mermaid

Example Sentences

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After listing Oppenheimer’s wartime accomplishments, including overseeing the invention of the plutonium bomb, Rabi asked the inquisitors, “What more do you want, mermaids?”

From Los Angeles Times

Occasionally a herd of hippocamps would come and swim alongside the boats, or a mermaid would approach a fisherman, playing a tune on a flute made from a razor clam.

From Literature

My boy is such a traditional boy, and then the girls want to dress up like mermaids and princesses.

From Los Angeles Times

We stay in the sea for hours pretending we are mermaids, and when we finally come out, our skin is all wrinkly.

From Literature

Of course, some of what he exhibited for his patrons had nothing to do with the real world—like his infamous Fiji mermaid, purportedly half monkey, half fish.

From The Wall Street Journal