How to Use bream in a Sentence

bream

noun
  • One fish that can be used in this dish is sashimi-ready sea bream.
    The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2017
  • After a minute marked by tense silence, two breams emerged from the hole.
    Taylor Weidman, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2018
  • But some can also be used to catch bream, crawfish, shrimp and other species used for bait.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Most anglers use 6 to 8 pound test mono on bream-buster type long rods for this action.
    Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The air was thick with the sweet smell of spawning bream, and the creek bottom was pockmarked with bream beds.
    Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The kitchen makes only a few each night, using whole sea bream, head and tail included.
    Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Use crickets and redworms near docks and seawalls for bluegills, bream and warmouth.
    Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 July 2018
  • Ekema said most of the fish impacted by this event were bluegill bream that were 3 inches or less in length.
    Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Ripe persimmon flesh and strips of raw sea bream under frizzled yuzu threads sit in an instant marinade.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2016
  • All three are plentiful throughout much of the country, but bluegill are often called bream in the South.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • While some anglers swear by chicken thighs, baitfish like shad, herring, and bream, are more popular.
    Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Live crickets on a dead drift are shellcracker candy, but small safety-pin spinners can help pull boss bream out of the brush.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Out of them come scientists, also here to fish, but not for the bream and sunfish that are being caught and released for sport.
    Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Taverna del Marinaio has excellent seafood salad and sea bream with green sauce.
    Alexander Lobrano, Town & Country, 2 June 2017
  • The lake has been restocked with black bass, bluegill, redear bream, and fathead minnows, according to the listing.
    Gabriel Romero, Chron, 24 Aug. 2022
  • There are few events in the sporting life that are as consistent and accessible as fishing for bedding bream.
    T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Flyfishing enthusiasts will love the rolling rivers and numerous lakes and ponds stocked with largemouth bass and bream.
    Smithsonian, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Currently available menus propose blue lobster with tomatoes and black olives, sea bream and free-range fowl with chickpeas and sorrel.
    Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2017
  • Having recently just eaten bream for the first time, I'm relieved to find out that the parasite does not cause human disease.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2012
  • There is already over 2 million pounds of fish caught and sold from Florida freshwater bodies such as catfish, tilapia and bream.
    Ed Killer, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Small panfish and bream float stunned and motionless in the five feet or so of zapped lake around the boat, but the target eels do not seem as susceptible in the marshy edges that are lined with brush.
    Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This is not only holy temple to sardines, but to all kinds of seafood, including salmon, seam bream, octopus, and mussels, all of which are preserved solely in olive oil.
    Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Here, a pontoon boat included in the sale makes for long, sunny days out on the water catching yellowtail kingfish, bream, and snapper—all local to the area.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Located throughout the state, these lakes are noted for their quality fishing for bream, largemouth bass, channel catfish, and crappie (in most lakes).
    Frank Sargeant, al, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The tasty bream typically are on the beds on the weeks of full and new moon in May, June and July across much of Alabama.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 2 June 2021
  • For those opposed to large primal cuts of cow, consider the sea bream, which is cleverly deboned yet served whole with charred halves of lemon and orange that beg to be given a liberal squeeze.
    Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
  • For over three hours we were served more than a dozen courses, including the platonic ideal of chorizo, sardines, prawns, razor clams, goose barnacles and a whole red bream.
    Jason Wilson, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Aggressive Rio Grande cichlids have taken over many local waterways, muscling out bream and crappie.
    Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 11 July 2017
  • Pine Tree is also open to small game and waterfowl hunting, and several ponds and lakes across the property provide access for catfish and bream fishing.
    James Brandenburg, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, golden topminnows and killifish shelter in the shadows hoping to avoid bass and bream lurking in the underwater forest created by the tall stalks and flower stems.
    Ben Raines | [email protected], AL.com, 30 Aug. 2017

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