nymph
Example Sentences
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The corridor was flanked on both sides by marble statues of creatures: nymphs and dryads, armed centaurs, a unicorn.
From Literature
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Echo is presumably the tragic nymph of mythology who was cursed by Hera to be little more than a voice that could only repeat the last words spoken to her.
Intermittently “Ballade” includes a lustrous sisterhood of what seem to be junior nymphs attending their sibling.
Many humans are infected when they’re nipped by nymph ticks, a period in their life cycle when they’re roughly the size of a poppy seed and barely visible to the naked eye.
From Los Angeles Times
When I go, I wear a disposable hair net and pretend I’m a grotto nymph, crawling around the corners of my subconscious transporting me back in time.
From Los Angeles Times
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