How to Use sculpin in a Sentence

sculpin

noun

• The dead fish have mostly been small suckers, minnows, darters and sculpin.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• Drifting night crawlers has been good in main channel, along with sculpin/ginger marabou jigs.
  — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star tyler Mahoney,, kansascity, 11 Apr. 2018
• Parent birds now feed their chicks sculpin and other fish that are less abundant and less energy-rich than the cod.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2022
• First to show symptoms are the trout, sculpin and other fish swimming in this section of the cold-water stream.
  — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
• Small pools of water remained at the base of the rocks, where small sculpin swam in circles and little shore crabs scuttled to safety.
  — oregonlive, 17 July 2021
• Decent numbers have been caught on gray scuds under a float, but stripping a sculpin pine squirrel in the Narrows area was the best.
  — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
• The jig and float method with either a sculpin or ginger micro jig, on 2-pound tippet is catching good numbers of rainbows.
  — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 27 June 2018
• Small native minnows can be used, with the sculpin minnow being a favorite on Western trout waters.
  — Popular Science, 1 June 2020
• Scans from skulls of different species of sculpins offered clues about why some live in shallow water, while others reside only in the deep.
  — National Geographic, 21 July 2016
• The ground was covered with kelp, the occasional crab and edible clumps of roe from the fourhorn sculpin, which the Inuit call the ugly fish.
  — Craig S. Smith, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• The big rainbows that call the South Fork home are coming up to slurp caddis imitations and yellow sally stoneflies. Swinging bigger patterns like leeches, sculpins and cicadas is a good way to target trophy-sized fish.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 8 June 2018
• Take respectful photos and use your Pocket Guide to identify common species like tidepool sculpin or turban snails.
  — Lillie Mulligan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
• Not as popular is the appearance in the lower Clackamas of the invasive Amur goby, a small fish resembling a sculpin, but with much shorter fins.
  — oregonlive.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• On Monday, Smith guided Scott Barlow and his friends to five yellow eye snappers up to 5 pounds, a red grouper, three dolphin and 10 sculpins.
  — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 July 2017
• In May, state biologists surveyed the channel and found a strong population of adult fish, including sculpins and trout — about 800 browns and 200 rainbows.
  — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
• In the trophy area, white and white/gray 1/16th ounce jigs up closer to the dam and sculpin/ginger from Lookout to Fall Creek have worked well, with the Narrows being the hottest area by far.
  — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
• In Kobuk Valley National Park in Alaska, a tributary to the Akillik River lost all its juvenile Dolly Varden and slimy sculpin fish after an abrupt increase in stream acidity when the stream turned orange.
  — Matthew L. Druckenmiller, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025