fishbowl

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noun fish·bowl \ ˈfish-ˌbōl \

Definition of fishbowl

1 :a bowl for the keeping of live fish

2 :a place or condition that affords no privacy

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Examples of fishbowl in a Sentence

Being a politician these days means living in a fishbowl—every part of your life is open to public view.

Recent Examples of fishbowl from the Web

The adults in the Carlson party all had crazy straws stuck into a Dunk Tank, a $29 fishbowl drink made for sharing that combines Bacardi Black, Bacardi Coconut, Bacardi Silver, Bols Amaretto and fruit juices.

— shonda talerico dudlicek, Aurora Beacon-News, "These spots will bowl you over," 25 Aug. 2017
True to its name, Wet Cash culminates with one lucky audience member being presented with a wad of bills that have been stewing in a fishbowl during the hourlong stand-up show.

— steve heisler, Chicago Reader, "Wet Cash doesn’t water down its humor," 24 Aug. 2017
Unlike Schultz, whose shadow managing went largely undetected, Kalanick lives in the tech world fishbowl and his every interaction will quickly leak, given all the recent and impending unhappy departures at Uber.

— paul pendergrass, Fortune, "How Travis Kalanick Can Pull Off a Steve Jobs Comeback," 4 Aug. 2017
Specials on brews, fishbowl cocktails, bar snacks. $1 from each Shark Week cocktail donated to Newport Aquarium’s Wave Foundation.

— rasputin todd, Cincinnati.com, "Things to do this week: July 25-30," 24 July 2017
Rousteing’s muse, Kim Kardashian, was the queen of the night, dressed in a bra top and clinging skirt, and struggling to walk even a step through the fishbowl of fans looking to take selfies with her.

— booth moore, The Hollywood Reporter, "At Balmain L.A. Bash, Skirts Were Skimpy And Shirts Optional," 21 July 2017
Whether creators and posters are sharing clear slime, fluffy slime, charm slime, floam, fishbowl slime, or any other number of slime variants, slime is clearly a Thing, and so naturally, many of the folks who make these videos are cashing in.

— lilian min, Cosmopolitan, "This Slime Creator Makes Up to $200,000 a Month," 26 June 2017
Among them lay Sami’s shattered fishbowl and Sami, dead among the shards of glass.

— elisabeth egan, chicagotribune.com, "Algren Award finalist: "Water like air" by Rebecca Wurtz," 10 June 2017
The fishbowl situation along with increasingly lackluster performance on the court sent him into a tailspin.

— jose lambiet, miamiherald, "Lamar Odom, already out of Kardashian clan, now wants out of Pinecrest," 27 Apr. 2017

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