MERMAID in a Sentence

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The Christian or civilized part of the crew said it was mermaids, and shuddered; but the pagan harpooneers remained unappalled.

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 Meanings and Examples of MERMAID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mermaid
 n.  legendary sea creature having the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish
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.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
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.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
3  I'm no castaway, I'd have you know, Sir; no fishtailed mermaid with a robe of sea weed, at your mercy.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
4  The Christian or civilized part of the crew said it was mermaids, and shuddered; but the pagan harpooneers remained unappalled.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
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.