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Tourists and passers-by enjoy posing for photos with the mythical fishmonger, but her low-cut dress sometimes attracts the wrong kind of attention.—Daniel Wine, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025 At this small retail fish market and restaurant, co-proprietor and skilled fishmonger Caitlin Carney wields a boning knife and an infectious personality.—Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025 In the song, which has been mournfully covered by Joni Mitchell and Sinead O’Connor, Molly Malone is a tragic figure, a fishmonger who sells her wares on Dublin’s streets and eventually dies of a fever.—Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025 Over the course of the next four decades, Fay got married, raised a family, and worked at various points as a groundskeeper, fishmonger, and fruit picker.—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fishmonger
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