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Example sentences for "fishy"

Lexicographically close words:
fishpond; fishponds; fishtail; fishwife; fishwives; fisshes; fissile; fission; fissionable; fissionables
  1. He asked Jim whether he had nothing fishy in his life to remember that he was so damnedly hard upon a man trying to get out of a deadly hole by the first means that came to hand--and so on, and so on.

  2. He had globular eyes starting out of his head with a fishy glitter, bumps on his forehead, and wore his long hair brushed back without a parting.

  3. That greasy beast of a skipper poked his big cropped head from under the canvas and screwed his fishy eyes up at me.

  4. And even in the library, where Skkiru sought refuge from the festivities, fishy fumes kept filtering down through the ventilating system to assail his nostrils.

  5. But if, in the reaction of disgust, I have betaken myself to a fishy eye, there has been a surprising similarity of result.

  6. I don't know what I should have done without him at that time," she thought now, as she stood with his big, soft hand clasping hers and his admiring fishy eyes on her face.

  7. Prophet shall himself Appear, who will instruct thee, and thy course Delineate, measuring from place to place Thy whole return athwart the fishy flood.

  8. I am not ignorant, myself, how dread Have been your woes both on the fishy Deep, And on the land by force of hostile pow'rs.

  9. But she a potent remedy devised Herself to save us, who the nostrils sooth'd Of each with pure ambrosia thither brought Odorous, which the fishy scent subdued.

  10. Yet say (for the Immortals all things know) What God detains me, and my course forbids Hence to my country o'er the fishy Deep?

  11. Antient of the Deep, And ask him, of the Gods who checks thy course Hence to thy country o'er the fishy flood.

  12. Nine days by cruel storms thence was I borne Athwart the fishy Deep, but on the tenth Reach'd the Lotophagi, a race sustain'd On sweetest fruit alone.

  13. Yet say (for the Immortals all things know) 570 What God detains me, and my course forbids Hence to my country o'er the fishy Deep?

  14. It had sort of been nagging at the back of my head that something was fishy about that mate's story anyway, so this morning I went to his house and I collared him.

  15. That was as fishy a trick as I ever saw pulled.

  16. The launch sped past Million Dollar Row, leaving behind a string of fishy waste as Cap'n Mike went on with his cleaning.

  17. No, the whole thing is fishy as a bin of herring.

  18. Fishy transactions never do pay, though they always promise to.

  19. Refuse fishy matters from markets and from the house are well worth saving.

  20. If a piece of tainted meat, or a fishy duck be buried in a rich garden soil, what takes place?

  21. He farmed the property that had been his father's own, and is now leased by my fishy cousin afore mentioned.

  22. He went back to the twilight of the north, his fishy cousin, and his tutorship at Sir Olaf Petersen's.

  23. You shall get a fishy On a little dishy; You shall get a fishy when the boat comes home.

  24. She had large, cold, fishy eyes, and a large, cold, fishy smile.

  25. Turnbull remarks about the New South Wales tribes that the best food supply, and consequently the largest gatherings, were possible on the sea-shore and on the banks of fishy rivers.

  26. The local groups amongst the Bangerang, who lived at the junction of the Murray and Goulburn Rivers, seem to have been more numerous, owing, perhaps, to the easiness of food supply on the banks of two fishy rivers.

  27. She resolved at her earliest leisure to consult Captain Kittridge on the subject, wisely considering that it much resembled some of his fishy and aquatic experiences.

  28. If it is, I don't want any of it," declared Tom, sniffing the fishy odor.

  29. Its contents was steaming and emitted a rank and fishy odor.

  30. Fishing tackle hung here and there and there was an odd, fishy smell.

  31. When quite fresh it has no fishy taste, but when two or three days old the fishy taste becomes perceptible.

  32. I'll blow his fishy gills out of his head if I ever get a shot at him!


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fishy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambiguous; beguiling; blank; catchy; corrupt; criminal; crooked; dark; deceiving; deceptive; delusive; devious; dishonest; dishonorable; doubtful; dubious; empty; equivocal; evasive; expressionless; fallacious; false; felonious; fishy; fraudulent; glassy; hallucinatory; illusive; illusory; immoral; impassive; improbable; indirect; insidious; misleading; piscatory; queasy; queer; questionable; rotten; shady; shameless; shifty; sinister; slippery; strange; suspicious; tricky; unconscientious; unconscionable; underhanded; unethical; unprincipled; unsavory; unscrupulous; vacant; wooden