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How to use mermaid in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun

Mermaid means a mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish. Example: “And we don't know what a mermaid actually looks like (or if they even exist).”

Examples of mermaid by meaning

nounColoured a brilliant turquoise.

  • a mermaid smoothie

More sentences with mermaid

  • And we don't know what a mermaid actually looks like (or if they even exist).2026 April 7, Jada Gomez, “Halle Bailey Reveals How The Racist “Little Mermaid” Backlash Changed Her Forever, And It’s Actually Genius…. From the entry ridiculous
  • The lead cecaelia ship left its fleet formation to dock with the main mermaid ship.2021, Austin Dragon, Siren Storms of Madness (Fabled Quest Chronicles; book five), Well-Tailored Books, →ISBN. From the entry cecaelia
  • Sea monks had failed to assert themselves into the popular imagination the way mermaids had.2019, Holly MacArthur, Tin House 80: 20th Anniversary Edition. From the entry sea monk
  • I told you we should have gone with the mermaid costume.2017, Frankie Pamplemousse, “The No-Kart Race”, in The ZhuZhus. From the entry imma
  • People who buy the tails and participate in the culture aren’t just fascinated by mermaids.2016 September 1, Taylor Prewitt, Sarah Teveldal, “One Nation, Under Water: Mermaids of Texas”, in Tribeza. From the entry mermaidism
  • Me and homegirl be inside checking out a black mermaid exhibit.2013, Kwame Alexander, He Said, She Said, New York, N.Y.: Amistad, →ISBN, page 273. From the entry woadie
  • All they had to do to swallow a mermaid was open their gigantic mouths wide.2012, Debbie Dadey, Whale of a Tale, Aladdin, →ISBN, pages 16–17. From the entry merkid
  • It was thought that she would be another sea creature, such as a rockfish-like mermaid.2010, Joshua C. Shaffer, Discovering the Magic Kingdom: An Unofficial Disneyland Vacation Guide, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry cecaelia
  • There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren.2003, Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry merchild
  • Mermaids swam in the etched glass and sun goddesses smiled in the bas-relief.1988 February 14, Barry Bearak, “Art Deco Rivival : Miami Beach Comes Back Into Vogue”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry sun goddess
  • Julianne Moore’s Chanel was woefully drippy, Jennifer Aniston’s mermaid Versace was stale as five-day-old bread and Kerry Washington wore maid-of-honour chic.2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London). From the entry drippy
  • Fantasies of mermaids with warm, green-fringed caves.2015 August, Helen McClory, “Sexually Frustrated Mermaids”, in On the Edges of Vision: Stories, Plano, Tex.: Queen’s Ferry Press, →ISBN…. From the entry fishgirl
  • I remember the tales of children enticed to the floor of the sea by mermaids and fishboys in search of playmates.2014, Eleanor Swanson, “Exiles and Expatriates”, in Exiles and Expatriates: Stories, Hollywood, Calif.: Hollywood Books International…. From the entry fishboy
  • I also have to bake a mermaid cake!2011, Jacqueline Pascarl, Abducted: The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children. From the entry chocolate crackle
  • "If you'd been the lookout, you'd've told them these were sea cows, not mermaids, right?" "Right," I said.2002, Will Shetterly, Dogland. From the entry mercow
  • Mermaids, fishgirls, of her age never did.1989 July, Fred Saberhagen, “Prologue”, in Farslayer’s Story (Lost Swords; 4), New York, N.Y.: Tor Fantasy, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry fishgirl
  • It concerned a mermaid, a mermonster, and a giant turtle in a hokey love story and a murky plot.1980, Richard Meyers, The World of Fantasy Films. From the entry mermonster
  • Jane lined up the girls and called out, "Dive!" The girls dived - mermaids for a piscatorial pageant.1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 184. From the entry piscatorial
  • They were not mermaids, but almost like them.1914 August 8, “A Story For Boys and Girls”, in Twin City Daily Sentinel, Winston-Salem, N.C., page 9. From the entry elfess
  • She was the most beautiful of all the mermaids, her hair shinier, her tail shimmerier, her voice more captivating than any other fish-girl’s.2015, Elana K[uczynski] Arnold, chapter 4, in Infandous, Minneapolis, Minn.: Carolrhoda Lab, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry shimmery
  • There are mermaids and mermen everywhere.2013, Missy Fleming, Into the Deep, page 65. From the entry mer
  • Two eighth-graders (Emma Roberts and JoJo) befriend a mermaid (Sara Paxton) who has three days to prove to her merfather that love exists.2006 March 3, Roger Ebert, “'Aquamarine'”, in Orange County Register. From the entry merfather
  • She sighed audibly when the merprince rescued the young mermaid and whisked her away to his kingdom as his bride, thus ending the story.2005, Tracey V. Bateman, Kansas Home: Hearts Adrift Find a Place to Dwell in Four Romantic Stories, Barbour Publishing Incorporated…. From the entry merprince
  • These women vocalists are bound in chartreuse mermaid suits and capped with blunt, white-blond wigs queasily reminiscent of Kathleen Turner's mop in Crimes of Passion.1988 April 16, Elizabeth Pincus, “Taming Upstart Women”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry queasily
  • Posh fashion types described the look as “mermaidcore” – dressing like a mermaid to you and me – but singer Sarah Hudson said: “Gimme these shooooooes!!”2022 September 5, “Dua’s flash landing…”, in Irish Daily Star. From the entry mermaidcore
  • The description of pretty mermaids frolicking in the water is so widespread that it was thought there must be a real creature lurking behind the legends.2012, QI: quite interesting facts about mythical creatures - Telegraph. From the entry mercow
  • He stood on his bed then Sellotaped the mermaid picture on to his wall so she would be the first thing he would see when he woke up.2009, Janis Mackay, Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest, Kelpies, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry sellotape
  • She liked the cold water of the mill-race, and without shame or hesitation would throw off her frock and float like a mermaid, almost invisible, in the watery element.1935, Benedict Read, The Green Child, Capuchin, published 2010, page 36. From the entry mill race
  • Thus were born from credulity, fancy and fertile imagination, in successive ages, dragons, medusas, basilisks, salamanders, gorgons and unicorns, the cocatrice, the epimacus and the seductive mermaid.1930, Indian State Railways Magazine, page 15. From the entry epimacus

Meaning of mermaid

  1. noun A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.
  2. noun Coloured a brilliant turquoise.
  3. noun A prostitute.

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Questions about mermaid in a sentence

How do you use mermaid in a sentence?
Mermaid is used as a noun. For example: “And we don't know what a mermaid actually looks like (or if they even exist).”
What is a short sentence with mermaid?
“a mermaid smoothie”
What does mermaid mean?
Mermaid means a mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.

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