Nereid
Example Sentences
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She looks like a nereid, guarding the sea behind her, ready to kick away underwater when it rushes in.
From The New Yorker • May 19, 2017
The nereid made no move to hand Mal over.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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“What was that nereid trying to say to you?”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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But Ino saw him—Ino, Kadmos’ daughter, slim-legged, lovely, once an earthling girl, now in the seas a nereid, Leukothea.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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A nereid called after her in Nerish, something high and strangely pleading, but she did not turn.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.