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

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024