shrimping

present participle of shrimp

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrimping
Verb
  • Donnie Workman set a West Virginia record for tiger trout on April 26 while fishing at Summit Lake.
    Michael Guise, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • Do not swim near people fishing or spearfishing.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • Last year, the singer found himself at the center of the high-fence hunting debate after harvesting a world-record Transcaspian urial ram at Texas' Covered S Ranch.
    Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
  • But a farmer harvesting 150 bushels of corn per year from a field must replenish the nutrients to grow corn again the next year.
    Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 June 2026
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“Shrimping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrimping. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.

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