How to Use fish in a Sentence
- We're having fish for dinner.
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That caused tons of fish to die.
—Jacob Wycoff, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
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The smell of fish hangs in the air.
—Kristina Kasparian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
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Add soy or fish sauce and lemon juice.
—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
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The rest of the fish caught were all pike.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
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The dozens and dozens of fish and shrimp boats.
—Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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A lot of these fish grow one pound a year.
—Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
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Van Dyke was just a small fish.
—Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 17 May 2026
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The fish must have pulled it loose in the grass.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026
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The ocean is vast, and fish move freely through it.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
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Stop Sales across the board on the fish.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
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Not singly, not a lone fish here and there, but in packs.
—Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
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Now so many of the other fish are gone.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
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Did anyone mail you a dead fish?
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
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Yes, fish can go bad in the freezer.
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
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How is the fish kept so pristine?
—Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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But this fish looks nothing like them.
—Maggie O’Farrell, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
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But there were bigger fish to fry.
—Bill Hancock, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
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Arrange the lemon slices on top of the fish.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2026
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Fish is one of the best options for this.
—Md Published, Verywell Health, 22 June 2026
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Has the fish been frozen before?
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
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Then, the smell of rotten fish hit.
—Jerry Wu, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
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Ready to sink your teeth into a fresh fish taco?
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026
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Waitress clothes in a fish-smelling heap.
—Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
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The smell of fish, shrimp, and salt water.
—Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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Some of the fish fall down and have to begin again.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 5 Apr. 2026
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The fish latched on at the surface, in plain sight.
—Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
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The fish are non-natives such as bass and carp.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
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There's no drama, just lime and fresh fish.
—Marisol Mosquera, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
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Spoon sauce over fish; garnish with cilantro.
—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
- They fished the stream all morning.
- She was fishing around in her purse for her keys.
- We spent the afternoon fishing for trout.
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Can fish go bad in the freezer?
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
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Because the pond has been very fished.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 May 2026
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Tourists from the liners came out to fish.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
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Those who fish aren’t left out either.
—Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
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Those designed to fish from a sandy beach are called sand spikes.
—Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
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Gail likes to go for walks along the lake, and Phil likes to fish.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
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As a child, one of my biggest dreams was to own a lake to fish on.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 16 Apr. 2026
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This way everyone has an equal chance to fish the pools.
—Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
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Four were fishing with cane poles from a rickety dock.
—Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
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Few men ever get to fish such water.
—Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
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Or a place where something that fish like to eat is hatching.
—Mike Kurlansky, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026
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People fish with nets and rods, throwing back the small fish.
—Fabiano Maisonnave, Teresa De Miguel, and André Penner, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
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Her husband and son had gone fishing.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
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Without lights, the best way to find squid is to fish along the bottom.
—Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
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The second one would be fishing.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
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Guests can fish or crab off the hotel's docks or have a picnic on the lawn.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
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And right now, in Texas, far too many of us are fish in a shrinking rock pool.
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
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Boy fishing Dinah’s hat out of the drink.
—Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
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Fire up the replay and start the clock as soon as the goalie fishes the puck out of the net.
—Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
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Thus, there is no need for the human therapist to fish around.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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But fish in even the moderately hot group didn’t fare as well.
—Rebecca Dzombak, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
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And don’t forget to fish them out of the sauce before blending.
—Julia Levy, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2023
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Locals surf and fish off the beaches, or hunt pigs in the mountains.
—Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
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The warmer months are the perfect time to go boating and fishing on the lake.
—Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
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If they’re being fished at the limit, the stock’s going to crash.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2023
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We were obsessed with fishing from an early age.
—Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2026
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People swim, people fish, there's a lot of aquatic life.
—Megan Shinn, CBS News, 26 May 2026
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