Thesaurus results for FISHING

fishing

verb

Definition of fishing next

present participle of fish

as in fumbling

to search for something blindly or uncertainly take a minute to fish for some change to drop in the donation box

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Recent Examples of fishing Lastly, Kyaw Zayar Lin's photo at the top of this story features children fishing in the early hours of the day in the wetlands of Myanmar's Inle Lake. —

New Atlas, 21 Mar. 2026 Hell, the movie even opens with several of the men fishing together off a lakeside dock — could any activity be more emblematic of straight, middle-class, American dadness? —

Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026 Authorities on Monday recovered the body of a Central Valley man who did not return home after going fishing near the eastern edge of Alameda County. —

Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026 Small, silvery fish are expected to come ashore in Southern California for several days in March, making for a unique sight — and an opportunity to go fishing. —

Paris Barraza, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fishing

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With the title in their grasp, the Ducks have greased up their fingers, fumbling into a four-game winless slump.

— Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026
Last season’s Detroit Tigers endured the worst divisional collapse in history, fumbling an AL Central lead that reached 15 1/2 games in July.

— Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026