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
“What was that nereid trying to say to you?”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
The nereid reached out and pulled Mal onto the back of the hippocamp.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The nereid made no move to hand Mal over.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
