Example sentences for: nymph

How can you use “nymph” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's clear now that a better translation from the Greek would have read, "I have never touched that nymph , Miss Io."

  • A brown and yellow butterfly with blue eyes on its front wings is called the common wood nymph , or the wood satyr .

  • The entries on mayfly ¹, mayfly ², and mayfly ³, the first being any “up-winged insect,” the second the “true mayfly,” and the third, the “stonefly,” cover four full pages; more than six are devoted to sea trout ; more than ten to nymph fishing . Mirror and window goes into a fish's view of the world.

  • Also, anyone discussing the Satyridae family of butterflies will know that just plain pegala designates the goggle eye the wood satyr , the blue-eyed grayling , the wood nymph .

  • According to Ovid, when Zeus first saw this nymph, he said, "Maiden, you are fit for [Zeus] himself to love, and will make someone divinely happy when you share his couch."


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