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

‘To these she is ever present, the spirit of Nature—a sprite of the meadow, a naiad of lakes, a nymph of the woods.’

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2012

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

From Washington Post

“He said the guy had an obsession with naiads. What’s a naiad, anyhow?”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull