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Recent Examples of wood nymph
Stark put a dreamy twist on her baby pink wings, delivering a real-life fairy fantasy with her soft makeup, sculptural hair and gauzy peach matching set worthy of a wood nymph.
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Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
Congrats to real-life wood nymph Taylor Swift!
—Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2021
Lymph rhymes with wood nymph.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
Imagining oneself as a wood nymph wearing a bold lip and loud peasant dress doesn’t totally ward off unwanted attention.
—New York Times, 30 July 2021
Sam and Dean discover a wood nymph who is determined to protect her family at any cost.
—Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
Natalie Image, Simone McIntosh, Ashley Dixon, Philip Horst, Laura Krumm and Andrew Manea play assorted wood nymphs and forest denizens.
—Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
Actors disguised as forest creatures, wood nymphs and deer, scampered about as the 850 students came to step away for one night from the horrific event that rocked all of their young lives.
—Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 May 2018
Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
Congrats to real-life wood nymph Taylor Swift!
—Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2021
Lymph rhymes with wood nymph.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
Imagining oneself as a wood nymph wearing a bold lip and loud peasant dress doesn’t totally ward off unwanted attention.
—New York Times, 30 July 2021
Sam and Dean discover a wood nymph who is determined to protect her family at any cost.
—Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
Natalie Image, Simone McIntosh, Ashley Dixon, Philip Horst, Laura Krumm and Andrew Manea play assorted wood nymphs and forest denizens.
—Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
Actors disguised as forest creatures, wood nymphs and deer, scampered about as the 850 students came to step away for one night from the horrific event that rocked all of their young lives.
—Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wood nymph
Noun
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Instead of looking for adult mayflies, researchers were searching for aquatic immature mayflies, known as nymphs, and used nets to scoop sand from the riverbed, the study said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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Since then, the nymphs of those periodical cicadas have been underground feeding on tree root tap and waiting to come out, Reall said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Or, bring the whole family as recruits for Blackbeard, with makeover transformations into pirates or mermaids.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
2 May 2025
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These high-quality socks have lasted through dozens of elephants and mermaids—and just as many washes.—
Amy Wilkinson,
SELF,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Wood nymph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wood%20nymph. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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