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Example sentences for "catch fish"

  • A poor fisherman was toiling on the shore of a great lake to catch fish.

  • These they use to catch fish with, in the holes on the reefs, when the tide ebbs.

  • The next day we resumed our works; the natives ventured out to catch fish; and Pedro, with all his family, came and took up his abode near us.

  • In the afternoon he went again to the water to catch fish.

  • Let us go to that piece of water, where you then went to catch fish.

  • The fisherman went to catch fish, and went on till mid-day, but could not net any.

  • And anyway, Teddy bears can't catch fish," said Sue.

  • A1N; a12b2] catch fish in shallow waters with a hook and line, usually using also a fishing rod.

  • A12; a12] catch fish or crabs with a panggal.

  • N- v [A2; b6] catch fish with a hook and line made of lambu dragged behind the boat.

  • No, too much hungry, you all time fight Captain Jack, Injun no catch fish.

  • No matter what method we follow in fishing, we must never try to catch fish by any method which the laws may prohibit, such as spearing, set lines, or nets.

  • Where we expect to catch fish a pound or two in weight, the No.

  • Defn: A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.

  • To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

  • To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

  • Defn: A number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulled through the water to catch fish.

  • It is not customary to catch fish so early, but when you can do it it pays splendidly.

  • If we accept the plain meaning of the good priest's speech, we must believe that the Aran Islanders and Irish fishermen generally preferred to starve rather than to catch fish, unless an Irish Parliament were fixed on College Green.

  • A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.

  • Well," the man said, "it's just as easy for me to catch fish in a dusty road as it is for a wagon to foal.

  • When he asks you how you can expect to catch fish in a dusty road, tell him it's just as easy for you to catch fish in a dusty road as it is for a wagon to foal.

  • The upper one is, we think, the better of the two, but more difficult to catch fish in.

  • John with a minnow caught one three-pound trout and some smaller ones, and the Skipper and Esau several good fish with the fly, but we had no time to really try to catch fish, but kept rowing steadily on and getting what we could on the way.

  • After trying unsuccessfully to catch fish, we walked up the valley after lunch to look for a hut which is marked on the Ordnance map, and to see if there were any better camping-ground than the place we chose yesterday.

  • You can't catch fish if you don't have a sinker to take the hook down to the bottom of the water.

  • Maybe he heard we were here, and came to help us catch fish, or make a fire.

  • That town was on Sandport Bay, which was part of the Atlantic Ocean, and the bay was a good place to catch fish, lobsters, crabs and other things that live in salt water.


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