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

Without warning, the nereid thrust Mal at him and vanished underwater.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Meanwhile the nereid swam from the lap of Ocean laden with four sealskins, new flaved for the hoax she thought of playing on her father.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

A nereid called after her in Nerish, something high and strangely pleading, but she did not turn.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“I’m part nereid; on my father’s side, some generations back. The salt water does this: see. It only lasts a minute, but it shows.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell