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Example sentences for "gamy"

Lexicographically close words:
gammoning; gammons; gamopetalous; gamosepalous; gamut; gan; ganado; gander; ganders; gandher
  1. With reasonably light trout tackle they put up a gamy and interesting fight.

  2. Like all of the family it is a gamy fish, and affords good sport to the angler.

  3. It is a gamy fish and full of fight to the finish.

  4. While these birds are commonly called jack snipe or English snipe, their proper name is Wilson snipe, but like the rose, no matter what the name, they are just as gamy and just as delicious.

  5. They are caught trolling and make a gamy fight on rod and reel.

  6. While the Pacific Coast furnishes fine sport for the angler, both in its fresh and salt waters, with an infinite variety of gamy fishes, salmon fishing must be classed as one of the most satisfying.

  7. The great variety, gamy qualities and massive size of these fishes furnish a sport at once exciting and exhilarating, and challenging the keenest exercise of the ability of the sportsman.

  8. It is a wary bird, full of cunning and gamy qualities.

  9. This species fights altogether on the surface, but lacks the sterling gamy qualities of the tuna.

  10. But whatever the name, they are resourceful beyond comparison, and gamy to the fullest degree; affording with dog and gun the most enjoyable of all out-door sport.

  11. As a general rule they are not as keen fighters as the rainbow, but in the cold streams of Oregon and Washington they put up a fight worthy of the most gamy fish.

  12. As these gamy fish seek their spawning grounds, after their four-years' sojourn in unknown waters, they enter Monterey Bay at its southern headland and follow around it at varying distances from the shore.

  13. The large-mouthed bass and pickerel are usually ranked about with the yellow perch, I don't know why: they are certainly gamy enough.

  14. The mascalonge, as a game fish, is scarcely behind the small-mouthed bass and is certainly more gamy than the lake trout.

  15. Now well-known and rather gamy novel of sorority house life and an unhappy lesbian affair between naive freshman Mitch and neurotic Lana.

  16. In the French language, no lapse of time, no succession of ages had taken place; the stained and superb style of the de Goncourts and the gamy style of Verlaine and Mallarme jostled in Paris, living in the same period, epoch and century.

  17. In the Latin language, a long transition, a distance of four hundred years existed between the spotted and superb epithet of Claudian and Rutilius and the gamy epithet of the eighth century.

  18. At times the work became even exciting, as a larger and more gamy fish took hold.

  19. Perhaps he was a little prejudiced in the matter, because he had had a share in capturing the gamy fighters.

  20. They are considered gamy fishes, although less strong than the brook-trout, and perhaps less wary.

  21. The latter is a large and gamy fish, valued as food and interesting as being the only fresh-water fish of the nature of perch or bass native to the west of the Rocky Mountains.

  22. When the bait begins to give off a gamy scent, the mothers come.

  23. I see them daily alighting on the envelopes and very busily exploring them, apprised of the contents by the gamy smell.

  24. The gamy flavour of meats is nothing more than incipient decomposition.

  25. Others have peculiar tastes, as may be realized in the gamy taste of meat which is in the incipient stages of putrefaction.

  26. Then follows the ready response of the gamy weakfish to the angler's lure, the brave fight and happy landing of the prize.

  27. On this occasion, after landing a number of gamy bass and logy pike, she hooked a pike of about six pounds that put her six-ounce rod to the severest test, and gave her twenty minutes of the liveliest work that a fish is capable of.

  28. It is quite gamy and voracious, and with light tackle is worthy of the angler's skill.

  29. When of large size the gag is a very gamy fish, and must be handled very carefully to preserve one's tackle intact.

  30. It was an unusually gamy bass, and leaped several times in rapid succession from the water, shaking itself violently each time.

  31. It is quite a gamy fish for its size on light tackle.

  32. As the ducks and other gamy birds were numerous, they had some good shooting from their canoes as they paddled along.

  33. It is no uncommon thing for an upset to occur in the risk and glorious uncertainty of capturing a large, gamy fellow who makes a stubborn fight.

  34. On one of the beautiful islands in Oxford Lake they pitched their tents, and had some capital sport in fishing for the gamy trout which there abound.

  35. This went on until five fish had been caught, the last one, which fell to the professor, putting up the most gamy fight of them all.

  36. A few seconds later he landed a delicately spotted, gamy fish about eight inches long, which he recognized as a grayling.

  37. Again he felt a heavy weight, and this time found a gamy customer enough, for the fish darted violently, around as soon as it was conscious of the tug on the line.

  38. Indeed, at times one had to manoeuvre to keep them from taking the bait that was meant for the more gamy and edible, but also far more elusive, ling or fresh-water cod.

  39. In the Latin language there was a long transition, a lapse of 400 years, between the speckled and beautiful speech of Claudian and Rutilius, and the gamy speech of the eighth century.

  40. When the bait begins to give off a gamy scent, the mothers come, singly or in numbers.

  41. Perhaps the effluvia of the gamy tit-bit have reached them, coming from afar, imperceptible to any other sense than that of the Sexton-beetles.

  42. Shag caught up a landing net, for, though the colonel was not anticipating any gamy fish in this quiet, country stream, yet for such as he caught he used such light tackle that a net was needed to bring even a humble perch to shore.

  43. Herb wants to know 'when those gamy Britishers are coming out to hunt moose again?

  44. Look what those three gamy fellows have sent me," he said; and his eyes were now like Millinokett Lake under a full sun-burst.

  45. Though they would gladly have appropriated the compliment, the "gamy kids" were obliged to acknowledge that hunting had not been in their thoughts when they traversed the Atlantic.

  46. That is why he patiently whipped the Malad riffles until he came up with the portly lawyer from Shoshone, and found him gleeful over a full basket and bubbling with innocent details of this gamy one and that one still gamier.

  47. It is gamy but not savage; one does not feel the savage instinct to kill that the black bass or the pike raises in him, but rather a feeling of love for a vigorous fighter for its life who is handicapped with a tender mouth.

  48. It has a smaller mouth, and is not quite so gamy as the rock bass, but is, withal, a great favorite with many anglers.

  49. I don't know why; they are certainly gamy enough.

  50. The mascalonge, as a game fish, is scarcely behind the small-mouthed bass, and is certainly more gamy than the lake trout.

  51. Unlike Williams, he thought it perfectly feasible, and rather a neat, gamy thing for a youngster to do.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gamy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.