Examples of fishwife in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns. — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020 An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net. — Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018 The latest environmental measure that has people grumbling is a two-year ban on fishing for omul, a smoked delicacy hawked by fishwives all around the lake. — Neil Macfarquhar, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017 A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay. — Simon Winchester, New York Times, 1 June 2016

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