mermaid
Example Sentences
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Occasionally a herd of hippocamps would come and swim alongside the boats, or a mermaid would approach a fisherman, playing a tune on a flute made from a razor clam.
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My boy is such a traditional boy, and then the girls want to dress up like mermaids and princesses.
From Los Angeles Times
We stay in the sea for hours pretending we are mermaids, and when we finally come out, our skin is all wrinkly.
From Literature
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Of course, some of what he exhibited for his patrons had nothing to do with the real world—like his infamous Fiji mermaid, purportedly half monkey, half fish.
“I get a renewable air supply, somehow. And a mechanical mermaid tail. I have a home pod underwater, so I never have to surface? Boom! I’m a mermaid.”
From Literature
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