MERMAID in a Sentence
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Example sentences for MERMAID, such as:
1. The mermaid was a sign, an advertisement of some kind, for a business run by a man in a nice car.
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Meanings and Examples of MERMAID
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mermaid
n. half woman and half fish; lives in the sea
Classic Sentence:
1 Her final employment was to gather seaweed of various kinds, and make herself a scarf or mantle, and a head-dress, and thus assume the aspect of a little mermaid.
2 As the last touch to her mermaid's garb, Pearl took some eel-grass and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother's.
3 I'm no castaway, I'd have you know, Sir; no fishtailed mermaid with a robe of sea weed, at your mercy.
4 The Christian or civilized part of the crew said it was mermaids, and shuddered; but the pagan harpooneers remained unappalled.
Example Sentence:
1 Rain and wind, indeed! Yes, you are dripping like a mermaid; pull my cloak round you: but I think you are feverish, Jane: both your cheek and hand are burning hot.
2 The mermaid was a sign, an advertisement of some kind, for a business run by a man in a nice car.