How to Use merman in a Sentence

merman

noun
  • Even the Sun King of merman movies can’t buy his way out of his previous mistakes.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 May 2020
  • Johnson-Thares has eight mermaids and one merman on staff.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Styles transforms into a brawny merman who has washed ashore and is captured by a couple of sushi chefs.
    Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2022
  • His latest gram, is him, shirtless (wow), on a North Carolina Beach, with a sand merman tail.
    Micaela English, Town & Country, 3 July 2014
  • Mei draws her crush as a merman—a fantasy more risible than racy.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Bas-relief mermaids and mermen watch over its fountain pool.
    Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Yes, an actual merman, with flippers, who has been alive for centuries.
    Rachel Syme, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • In a report published by the Guinness World Records, Shaaban explained the workout routine that gives him his merman-like abilities.
    Maryam Mohamed, CNN, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The new visual treatment sees the English singer transformed into a rugged merman — with tentacles and marbled scales to match — as struggles to avoid becoming the next plate-up.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The story follows a tumultuous love affair between a demon master and a merman.
    Partner Content, Variety, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The title character is famous for her wildly popular series of romance novels about a girl in love with a merman.
    Ashley Petry, Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2017
  • And one image in particular, that of a woman and a merman floating in an underwater embrace, distills the movie to its soulful essence.
    Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • More recently, makeup and computer magic were combined to create a merman lead actor in much-lauded The Shape of Water.
    Adam Bargteil, Smithsonian, 9 June 2018
  • The map is packed with fantastical creatures, from unicorns in Siberia to mermen frollicking in the Southern Ocean and a terrifying bird flying off with an elephant in its talons.
    National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Kévin Aymoz, from France, wearing a scoop-neck sophisticated-merman shirt, skated to M83 and incorporated a roundoff-like aerial flip.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2022
  • In one 16th-century book of curious and bizarre creatures compiled by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner, drawings of the sunfish feature alongside images of mermen and sea monsters.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2020

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