How To Use Mermaid In A Sentence

Behold the mermaid blanket, a fishy update on that hygge groundbreaker, the slanket. Times, Sunday Times
How many times has something as fanciful as a unicorn, a yeti, a mermaid or a werewolf turned out to be based on fact?
Two flannels, draped across this, were mermaids, who swam and flopped and basked on islands of flesh.
We've all heard of mermaids, but know less of their male equivalent, the merman.
Tell the class that early explorers in Florida thought manatees were either mermaids or monsters.

There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
She finds him dragged down into the depths by sea-creatures who are an amalgam of classical nereides and the malicious nixies and mermaids of northern folklore.
May 18th, 2009 at 10: 33 pm this mermaid is fake because in the pic the hair is to shiny don’t u think Top 10 Hottest Animated Disney Women
She appears at the beach buried in sand to look like a mermaid, and on a snorkelling trip parades a fine pair of sea legs. The Sun
With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
Wendy was surprised to find the girl also had humanoid legs, and not the tail that mermaids of myth did.
We find unicorns, mermaids, and mermen; geese developed from the shell-fish known as "barnacles"; we are told that crocodiles may weep, and that sirens can sing -- in short, there is nothing so wonderful to be told of animals that people will not believe the tale. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
( "Mermaid") experiment at SM window #9 for another sun-glint observation session, using the bracket-mounted spectrometer (without use of the TIUS three-stage rate sensor), synchronized with a coaxially mounted NIKON D2X camera for taking snapshots, and later downloading the data to laptop RSE1 for subsequent downlink via OCA. SpaceRef Top Stories
This description helps to explain why both the dugong and the manatee have given rise to tales about mermaids, marine creatures with breasts and a forked tail.
Ancient maps contained only the sea, colored with symbols such as mermaids, fish or vessels while the land was empty.
And then, from the depths of the sea, beautiful mermaids swam up.
What lets it down is the star - the little mermaid, the fish. Times, Sunday Times
A Mazatlan mermaid is captured in perpetual performance for strollers and lovers alike. A Mazatlan mermaid is captured in perpetual performance for strollers and lovers alike. © Gerry Soroka, 2009
But a lot of that has to do with: 1. Hot vampire dudes making out on the cover 2. This other title featured a mermaid. Manga Before Flowers — NYCC08: Really? That was it? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Here the fish is excellent as at Porto cla Lenha, and we found the people catching it in large spoon-shaped basins: I enquired about the Peixe mulher (woman-fish), the French sirène, which old missioners describe as an African mermaid, not exactly as she appeared to the “lovely lord of Colonsay,” and which Barbot figures with “two strutting breasts.” Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
The pagoda has probably been scattered to the four winds of heaven, and the ship on which I journeyed from Ireland to Cathay is lying on the corals, with mermaids sleeping in its berths and swimming in and out the portholes. The Blue Cat of Castle Town
There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
In 1990, after years of duds like Oliver and Company, Disney roared back into theatres with The Little Mermaid, which just happened to be awesome.
Matt: A sexy voice? You need to swim to the abyssal zone. The witch who took the little mermaid's voice would give you what you want.
Her other hand points at a painting within the painting of a mermaid sounding a conch shell, indicating her affinity with the legless, mythological creature.
Now Wikipedia says a melusine lives in fresh water, which makes no sense for Seattle, but I'll just trust that Starbucks has figured out a way around that, or some competing myth. nixie -- has two tails, and I'll make you read the Slate piece to figure out why that's more adaptive than being a mermaid, reproduction-wise. Chron.com Chronicle
On that "mermaid" confection: how about half fluffy cotton cyclopic cyborg? What About Spongebob?
Even creepier is the fact that many of the female characters are scantily clad, and hot (the Little Mermaid wasn't always depicted popping out of a tiny bikini top). The Shame of Family Films
“Mermaids” and “batfish” were favourites, as I recall. Cautionary tales from the front lines of science - The Panda's Thumb
We veer away towards the subway, through the bloated families and the preening mermaids and mermen.
Mermaids are supposed to abound in the ponds and ditches in this neighbourhood. Careful mothers use them as bugbears to prevent little children from going too near the water.
Console tables had elaborately carved supports incorporating tritons, putti, and mermaids set amid scrolling vegetation.
You seem to have bought a mermaid costume in lime green. Times, Sunday Times
Do you know what your supposed to do, to meet a mermaid?
There are witches, fairies, and mermaidens [24] in the ballads: omens, dreams, spells, [25] enchantments, transformations, [26] magic rings and charms, "gramarye" [27] of many sorts; and all these things are more effective here than in poets like Spenser and Collins, because they are matters of belief and not of make-believe. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
This distinctively narrative work presents a host of motifs that recur throughout Schreuders' printed works, including mermaids and sculpted figures.
Sarah, who goes by the name mermaid lady on BodySpace, took a gradual approach by first researching nutrition and exercise and talking to others about weight loss and training, then incorporating strategies for creating change. Body by Design
Strong, proud and human – no flipper for her, though her feet are draped with seaweed – this mermaid's jaw suggests the same patient indefatigability as that of the town she symbolises. Folkestone Triennial – review
It was made out of dark cherry wood and gold leafed in the mermaids and fish carved into the legs of the table and chairs.
Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including mermaids and two-headed dragons.
Three times a day, behind a wall of four-inch-thick plate-glass, half a dozen mermaids - and the occasional merman - jive and pirouette in the world's only underwater spring theatre.
It's a cream mermaid dress with a floaty layer effect. Christianity Today
Her hair flows mermaid long and her legs strut. Times, Sunday Times
There were many beautiful and strange statues of mermaids and dragons and other mystical creatures.
* Mermaid earrings and a peridot ring by sunspiral! Friday!
These works lasted until 2004 and were potential foreshadowing for the creation of Mermaid Series.
However, the mermaids and mermen of the Pacific were ugly, angst-ridden hags with ape like features and brown hair covering their upper bodies.
In Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaids are unbelievably beautiful, and a male would not have had that lightness of line.
My nan was a topless mermaid in her time on the south coast. My family values: Katie Price
Shannon Tooker, right, and Marcy Terry from the Weeki Wachee Mermaids synchronised underwater aquabatics troupe perform in the Ocean Reef display, at the Sea Life London Aquarium, London, Friday, May 14, 2010. Kansas City Star: Front Page
One mermaid stretches her hand to a lotus flower while the other holds a bud, set with a chrysoprase, which forms the clasp.
My extra letter adds a whole new syllable though, which perplexes me greatly - do people not hear the difference?! p.s. I suspect it's just Mermaid who is really saying Cath E! Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09
Do you know are supposed to do to meet a mermaid?
This is Chittaprosad's illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid,' dated Nov. 27, 1968. linocut print on paper, 28.5 cm X 22.9 cm Chittaprosad's Bengal Famine
I am still not sure how my, at the time, little and skinny brother and I hauled our father back into the boat but all the jungle creatures, alligators, anacondas, piranhas, mermaids, were very polite and did not disturb us on the process. New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman
Hence it is that not a muffineer in all Mayfair lacks its lion couchant or its mermaid rampant. Flush: a biography
More conventional, but with a fair share of siren sexiness, were candy-striped Capri pant suits or a 1950s-style ruched jacket printed with little blue mermaids.
The focal point of the prizewinning sculpture is a figure that represents Modesta, sitting in a chair and painting a tiny mermaid figurine. Family Roots: The Soteno Trees Of Life
We date mermaids ... fight this bird called the waka waka bug — it's like a bee, but six times larger and once it attacks you you're pretty much gone. Disney's Pair of Kings Takes Viewers on a Magic Ride
Peter's 18th title is full of local flavour and includes stories of ghosts, witchcraft and mermaids, close encounters, poltergeists and alien big cats.
Richard had turned from O'Mare's records of his accounts to mull over a peculiarly fantastic sketch (mermaids, a sequoia forest, a flock of doves) that O'Mare had recently proposed for the bar wall of Maxies 'Club De Luxe, when the street door suddenly flew open and a strange character stepped in. The Secret Animal
Early in the novel, we're given some backstory: how deepsmen and Venetians clashed centuries earlier, how the deepsmen got the better of the landsmen, forcing them to accept a mermaid Queen, and after subsequent generations of inter-breeding, deepsman/landsman hybrids ruling every country. Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters (2009)
With water rides, mermaid shows, animal shows, riverboat rides, and scuba experiences, it's sure to delight.
She appears at the beach buried in sand to look like a mermaid, and on a snorkelling trip parades a fine pair of sea legs. The Sun
The 26th Annual Mermaid Parade was held in the Coney Island in New York on June 21, attracting tens of thousands of people.
This last amusement soon grew quite absorbing, and her "cubby," as she called it, rapidly became a pretty grotto, where she lived like a little mermaid, daily loving more and more the beauty of the wonderful sea, Finding the boat too sunny at times, the boys cut long willow boughs and arched them over the seats, laying hemlock branches across till a green roof made it cool and shady inside. Jack And Jill
At Starbucks' corporate headquarters, the signature mermaid placard toppled into the parking lot below.
We must send out as much mermen and mermaids as possible to battle those squids.
The thing rushed past his stationary body, jaws snapping at the mermaids ' tails.
She was wearing what she called her mermaid outfit: long, form-fitting aquamarine sequined skirt slit nearly to the waist, halter top, shimmering cape held like angel wings, NYT > Travel
All yesterday afternoon I thought about timed backups, and search results, and mermaids, and women wearing clothes, and women not wearing clothes, and I felt unlyrical. THE ANTHOLOGIST
He pulled out magnificent earrings with glistening pearls and emeralds dripping from them and then a glass cup with painted mermaids on it.
Rather than causing shipwrecks, the little mermaid saves the life of a shipwrecked prince, then makes a bargain with the sea-witch, exchanging her tongue for a pair of human legs.
Enforcement action under Operation Mermaid is reaping rewards. Times, Sunday Times
The sea is the home of selkies, mermaids, these liminal creatures that slip back and forth between states as between elements.
Four of the park's 10 staff mermaids perform at each show in the spring's chilly waters, along with a male swimmer who plays the prince in the story.
In some ways Pocahontas is a natural extension of previous Disney animated films like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
Now, first of all, the concept of cutting off (and eating) mermaid tails is wildly arresting. Little Vampire (and Other Little Folk)
It has more than 5,000 downloads, says Mr. Abrams, and he hasn't been able to measure the number of times people have used the software to share "I just had a bluepoint oyster at The Mermaid Inn" on Facebook and Twitter. The Ins and Outs of Mobile Apps
AND I hope she writed next on mermaids like she thinks she might more be heading towards! she does very good with coming up with new things, I loved The Host and all the neew worlds and species that were told about in that book too. Twilight Lexicon » EW Interviews Stephenie
(commonly called the tippling exciseman,) had unexpectedly departed this life by mistaking the steep staircase of the Mermaid for a single step, one night when his brain was more than usually beclouded. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832
I've always been fascinated by Japanese mermaid lore, which is very different from our mermaid stories.
In order to make her man happy, the mermaid has false limbs attached to her body which render her unable to swim.
Tales of mermaids in these parts have been passed down over the years.
When she was a child, her nanny regaled her with stories about mermaids and other sea creatures.
Lots were drawn to see who would have to be thrown out to the mermaid and the lot fell on Lawrence.
Like many of the other distinctive oysters plucked from the South Sound -- the Tottens and Chelsea Gems, the Hammersleys, Elds, Wildcat Coves, and Eagle Rocks -- Little Skookums are notably full-flavored, but veer off into non-mermaidly characteristics, like minerals, earth, cream, and melon; they are often sweet rather than overtly briny. The American Oyster Paradise
That’s how it ended up with the name mermaid weed. FALSE MERMAID
With her tiny feet splayed in a ‘V’, the impression of a mermaid's forked tail is complete.
a mermaid, but she could be a selkie, which is even better, because selkies aren't like fish from the waist down. Kitsap Sun Stories
The mermaid is awesome, the fire elemental is sick, but the two faced guy is stupid. Sanctuary premiere review
One of his favorite motifs was the mermaid whose undulating body allowed light to cast shadows over the surface.
Mermaids relaxing on the shoreline giggling and talking among each other while mermen watched from afar.
The ancient crest was a mermaid ppr.; but that now used, granted in 1400, is a demi-lion rampant (gu, guttée, ar), holding in his paws a royal mace. Virginia and Virginians
Historically, too, medieval mapmakers and geographers filled unknown regions with such beasties: centaurs, mermaids, manticores and Tartary lambs.
He was showering recently when he had the idea for a wedding scene in "The Little Mermaid"—a three-dimensional churchlike structure with pews full of people. The Reigning Prince of Pop-Up Books
With her tiny feet splayed in a ‘V’, the impression of a mermaid's forked tail is complete.
All were dressed intriguingly (by Mr. Happel and Rustam Khamdamov) to indicate everything from an innocent young man in a sailor suit (the central Robert Fairchild) to nymphlike mermaids whose slicked-back coiffeur-like caps suggested artfully styled seafoam. Two Newly Built Ballets
We're all aware that, while cutting-edge fashion can be a slither of mermaid sequins slashed north of the knicker line, it just as often means a tweedy suit, and a caramel leather blouson worn with shades.
A pot-bellied Catrín (the male version, its name meaning "a dandy") clothed in mariachi garb holds a rooster; a small platoon of grinning Catrinas wear mermaid tails and bear flowers. Catrina: Skeletons take over the art of Capula, Michoacan
Well mermaid judging by your now sadly deleted picture you are quite a babe so I ` m sure you can stand a little fatism Abu Hamster
The puppet characters will include magical sea creatures such as mermaids and jellyfish.
They would see the distant islands where the chief of Colonsay is still mourned for on the still evenings by the hapless mermaiden, who sings her wild song across the sea. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
The theme, obviously, is marine animals, and the inclusions range from humpback whales to tuna fish, from great white sharks to bottlenose dolphins, and from mermaids to walruses.
There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
Aaron, now the captain of ship called ‘Mermaid’, called out to the waving mermaids and mermen who were his friends.
Both sirens and mermaids have musical talents; bird-sirens sing and play the pipes and the lyre, whereas mermaids rely on their voices to entice sailors to their death.
Copenhagen is filled with his projects and benefactions - most famously the Little Mermaid, which he commissioned in 1913 after seeing a ballet version of the Hans Christian Anderson story.
Actors performed Mermaid and Prince on the theater stage at 9 pm.
His ears look like those sometimes depicted on mermaids, fine webbing, the usual wavelike sea-creature pattern, and gray.
Within the Palace's precincts are formal gardens complete with magnificent water terraces, an Italian Garden and the Mermaid Fountain, all of which give the impression that you are in one of the grands chateaux of France or Italy.
Historically, too, medieval mapmakers and geographers filled unknown regions with such beasties: centaurs, mermaids, manticores and Tartary lambs.
You know that dryad/mermaid of mine everyone loves? freyapax finished the shawl based on her. Monday
Fabulous sea creatures, giant fish, mermaids and dolphins circulate through the hulls of wrecked ships.
The lobby is graced with a fountain bearing a crystal mermaid.
Mermaids slaughtered in the waters as well as mermen warriors.
The wife of a Teton (the Tetons are a tribe of American natives) deserted him, abandoned her infant to her younger brother's care, and plunged into a stream, where she became what we call a mermaid, -- and all because her husband had scolded her. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
Jim C. Hines 'latest book is THE MERMAID'S MADNESS, the second of his fantasy adventures that retell the old fairy tales with a Charlie's Angels twist. Writing Terms Defined at SF Novelists
This last amusement soon grew quite absorbing, and her "cubby," as she called it, rapidly became a pretty grotto, where she lived like a little mermaid, daily loving more and more the beauty of the wonderful sea. Jack and Jill
She said: My nan was a topless mermaid and people used to pay money to look through and see her. Evening Standard - Home
She said when she arrived at the singer’s home, a mystery voice told her that she had to buy air tickets for the mermaids (injuza in Ndebele, or an imaginary sea creature fabled to have a woman’s head and upper body and a fish’s tail) which would track down the thieves who had stolen her car and cash. Enriching Our Economy
Actors performed Mermaid and Prince on the theater stage at 9 pm.
Are they mermaids, fatal love embodied in remote, mysterious feminine beings never possessable by any living man? Globe and Mail
A sexy voice? You need to swim to the abyssal zone. The witch who took the little mermaid's voice would give you what you want.
Do you know what you're supposed to do to meet a mermaid?
Life as a mermaid is much easier than all this! we lay piles of eggs on the coral reef and the mermen fertilise them. then we all go off and play water volley ball. The Full Brazilian
You seem to have bought a mermaid costume in lime green. Times, Sunday Times
It's a spell, you see, the mermaid has the power to cast spells.
It had carvings of mytholical creatures; mermaids and fairies seemed to be most of them.
Infinite shades of ice blue, aquamarine, cool greens and glinting whites put me in mind of an ice palace for an underwater ice queen - a deep frozen mermaid perhaps?
It’s the story of a man-eating plant that eventually takes over the world, told in jaunty 1960s-style doo-wop, written by a little-known team called Ashman and Mencken who would eventually fade into obscurity after producing little-known Disney musicals like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. It's Official
Sequins give the two-pieces a shimmery mermaid look.
Her mermaids, with their serpentine jointing, displayed an uncanny sinuousness. Robert Loerzel: Chicago, "Puppeteer" City
The light fleecy cirrhi were regarded as mermaids, or as swans, or as maidens with swan's plumage. Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
"Mermaids' tears" are small plastic pellets of waste (also known as nurdles) that wash up on beaches and look like plastic fish eggs.
Iphigenia suddenly realized without her mermaid's tail, she might not be able to swim at all.
I led Laura to The Mermaid, where she trailed behind me, chain-smoking.
Shannon Tooker, left, Marcy Terry, center, and Stayce McConnell from the Weeki Wachee Mermaids synchronised underwater aquabatics troupe pose outside the Sea Life London Aquarium, London, Friday, May 14, 2010. Kansas City Star: Front Page
Adding to the theatrics of the show, when the euphoniously named model Coco Rocha first appeared on the runway, she was in full mermaid tail and walking on two coral crutches! Fish Tales
It could have been griffin's thighs and mermaid's tonsils on a bed of triffid. Times, Sunday Times
Theirs is an artistic life resplendent with red and blue devil masks with delirious eyes and piercing horns alongside men on horseback, two-tailed mermaids, and maidens in flowered dresses. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
Attempting to get a dog to stand still on scales in the vets is a skill indeed! ssheppard: A txt message from Alan to let me know our mermaid swam her first width of the pool unaided today, makes for a very proud mummy. ssheppard: Tiredness has set in after a late night out on a school night. ssheppard: Driving home from Brighton after seeing Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds! ssheppard: Looking forward to a weekend with friends and family! ssheppard: Last email sent for week. March « 2009 « Samantha Sheppard
In the harbor sits Denmark’s best-known landmark: the Little Mermaid.
In the night, the sea colored, I had a split silvern mermaid tail beneath the sea blue in waves' crests and in foam. Susanne Jorn
PS the LA Looks-gelled up crimpy mermaid nastiness thing was so late '90s. Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
Her day job involves research on mermaids, fantasy creatures as inaccessible as her ideal mate.
A nereid, or mermaid, was taken in the year 1403 in a Dutch lake, and was in every respect like a French woman, except that she did not speak. Nightmare Abbey
It showed the client, todays trainee, along with his fellow executive retreatantsdoubtless exhausted after a hard day of budget cutting and crunching numbersdrinking rum punch dispensed from the breasts of anatomically correct female ice sculptures, to the accompaniment of a steel drum band, a limbo bar, and scantily clad waitresses dressed asoh dearmermaids. Excerpt: Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
A group of beautiful red-haired mermaids were all screeching at the top of their lungs.
Tom Robbins 'line floats into my mind: "Eating an oyster is like French-kissing a mermaid. The American Oyster Paradise
the biform body of a mermaid
Dusty car and ringing rail wore no Circean graces, when the long-haired mermaid, decked in robes of comely green, looked out from her bower beneath the waves, and beckoned me to come. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
Dugongs and manatees make up the order Sirenia, so-named because dugongs and manatees are thought to have given rise to the myth of the mermaids or sirens of the sea.
The mermaids and naiads will recede to deep ocean or hidden lakes.
Annie (Alison Barry), Syracuse's young daughter, researches Irish folklore and tells her father that Ondine is a "selkie," a sort of washed-ashore mermaid who can return to the water only after finding her lost "seal coat. Post-gazette.com - News
The witch had exacted a terrible price from the mermaid - she would have legs, lovely legs, but she would never be quite like the humans around her.
An ondine is a water wraith, a mermaid with legs, but no soul, so this is a fish restaurant. Times, Sunday Times
She is a mermaid, stunned, beached up upon the white sands of The Claremont's linen sheets, rolled back by waves int ? SPLITTING
It even has its own pair of Watchmen-style deconstructed superheroes: Mermaid Man, shuffling in peevish slippers toward senility, and his long-suffering sidekick, Barnacle Boy. SpongeBob's Golden Dream
When I first heard the word merkin, I thought it had something to do with mermaids and mermen, all fresh fish below the waist. In the Fullness of Time
The mermaids, dear creatures, had to be escorted home, but they felt safe, for their mermen brothers and daddies were so fierce that, except sharks, even the larger fish, such as porpoises and dolphins were afraid to come near them. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
The Irish call it "morúach", and give it a mermaid form like the Babylonian Nintu. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Cyclops, Dryads/Nymphs or other nature spirits, Fey such as faeries, there are half-humans such as Centaurs, Harpies, Lamia and Naga to accompany your Mermaids, and any number of exotic creatures from other mythologies. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
They showed all the mythological creatures that here existed, unicorns and flying horses, fauns and mermaids, elves and trolls, giants and dragons and many more beautiful and dangerous creatures she had never seen.
With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.

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