How to Use merman in a Sentence

merman

noun
  • Mei draws her crush as a merman—a fantasy more risible than racy.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 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
  • Yes, an actual merman, with flippers, who has been alive for centuries.
    — Rachel Syme, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Even the Sun King of merman movies can’t buy his way out of his previous mistakes.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 May 2020
  • His latest gram, is him, shirtless (wow), on a North Carolina Beach, with a sand merman tail.
    — Micaela English, Town & Country, 3 July 2014
  • 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
  • Wandering among the half naked nymphs and leering wolves and buff mermen poking their lovely wet heads out of glassy forest pools, their eyes dark with wanting to drag her down to oblivion.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Set in the seaside town of Freya Grove, this charming witchy romance follows Lucy, a high school teacher and witch, and Alex, a merman and her old crush from high school.
    — Audrey Goldberg Ruoff, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • But hidden on the northern end of the island is a secret community filled with magical beings, unicorns, centaurs, and mermen, the only place on earth these creatures can be themselves.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Directed by famed photographer Herb Ritts, Madonna – in a clingy black shirtdress – frolicked in the water and flirted with mermen.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Seconds later, emerald green water began to flow from the swans, merman and other water-spraying figurines that make the 168-year-old monument a popular selfie spot.
    — Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Although ordinarily the stuff of fantasy — and blockbuster Disney movies — being a real-life mermaid or merman is actually a reality for a select number.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
  • 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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