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Example sentences for "goldfish"

Lexicographically close words:
goldenrods; goldfield; goldfields; goldfinch; goldfinches; goldin; goldne; goldnen; golds; goldsmiths
  1. The approach to it was sinister after one had left Poperinghe and passed through the skeleton of Vlamertinghe church, beyond Goldfish Chateau.

  2. The theory has, moreover, been called to stand at the bar of experience, for a week or two ago one of Phyllis' goldfish died.

  3. A visit to the seedsman's procured the necessary surreptitious poppy seed; and so now poor Sir Goldfish sleeps with the seed of sleep in his mouth, and the children watch his grave day by day, breathless for his resplendent resurrection.

  4. And, John, do you know we ought to have some goldfish in the pool?

  5. Antony and Cleopatra were the goldfish which the Eckstroms, true to their promise, had sent us.

  6. The tulips are blossoming, Garth, and your poor old goldfish is awfully lonesome.

  7. Gaudy tulips reared splendid heads near a great clump of arum lilies that fringed a tiny pool where little Garth Macleod's solitary goldfish swam in lonely state.

  8. And then Dick chanted, lisping: "The goldfish thwimmeth in the bowl, The robin thiths upon the tree; What maketh them thit so eathily?

  9. As the warning gong for lunch rang out--a huge bronze gong from Korea that was never struck until it was first indubitably ascertained that Paula was awake--Dick joined the young people at the goldfish fountain in the big patio.

  10. Well, Dick makes his bookkeepers keep track of my goldfish in the same way.

  11. Mary Jane promised and then she took a last glimpse at the fountain of goldfish before Miss Burn took them back to Boston and their hotel.

  12. She led them over dainty gravel paths to the center of the garden where, peering into the white fountain, the girls saw dozens of goldfish swimming about in the sunshine.

  13. He finds that goldfish were first reared in confinement during the Sung Dynasty, which commenced A.

  14. The goldfish is naturalized in some rivers, and has had a wide artificial distribution throughout the world.

  15. Among fishes, goldfish and carp belong to the domestic class; while the honey bee and the silkworm moth belong to the lowest domestic group--the insects.

  16. They loan it to magicians to keep goldfish in.

  17. Miss Belsize hesitated, watching me for a moment and the goldfish rather longer.

  18. The Chinese carp (Cyprinus carpio) and the Japanese goldfish (Carassius auratus) have been naturalized in almost all temperate and tropical river basins.

  19. The two monstrous goldfish writhed on the ridge-pole as if suddenly endowed with life; then they melted, and flowed down in two incandescent streams.

  20. Fide-Yori himself, with a few courtiers, climbed to the topmost story of the great Goldfish tower, in the centre of the fortress.

  21. In, the distance glistened the tall tower of the palace and the two monstrous goldfish which adorn its pinnacle.

  22. Then he reached the goldfish tower, and kindled a conflagration on every floor.

  23. It loosened the tiny rivulet from the icy fingers of winter, and sped it merrily on its way to a miniature lake, where shining goldfish darted here and there in an ecstasy of motion.

  24. A splash in the pool below attracted her, and looking down she saw the gleaming bodies of the goldfish as they leaped into the air.

  25. The four new goldfish in the principal's bowl were swimming around and around madly.

  26. A large globe of water with goldfish and some aquatic plants and coral in it had the post of honor on a stand in the center of the bowed windows.

  27. Mr. Cave went into the shop, and stayed there until late, ostensibly to make ornamental rockeries for goldfish cases but really for a private purpose that will be better explained later.

  28. Change into a bowl of fish--no, not that--change into a glass bowl full of water with goldfish swimming in it.

  29. You see, I never had any goldfish of my own.

  30. To be over here in Koekensee was to feel like a single goldfish in a bowl of clear water.

  31. For a week he swam with delight in this new element; for a week he felt so good and innocent, exercising himself in its cool translucency, that almost did he seem a goldfish in a bib.

  32. The cat's eyes were on the live goldfish in the glass bowl, and, when I tell you that cats are very fond of fish, you can guess what is going to happen.

  33. His greedy eyes were on the swimming goldfish in the open glass bowl.

  34. The two little girls saw Tom up on the goldfish table.

  35. One day the Candy Rabbit was placed by Madeline on a chair in the dining room, near the bowl of goldfish on their little round table.

  36. Then the next time I want to catch a goldfish you will not give the alarm.

  37. I'm going to fix you for spoiling my chance of getting a goldfish dinner!

  38. Only for your toppling over and making the glass globe tinkle, I would have had a goldfish before this.

  39. Now you stay here a while and see how you like it," said the bad cat, and away he trotted, hoping to get a meal of goldfish this time.

  40. Maybe I can get back in time to warn the goldfish of their danger.

  41. So she put her Candy Rabbit on the goldfish stand.

  42. The top of the goldfish globe was open, and sometimes Madeline was allowed to feed the fish when her mother stood by.

  43. I'll set my Candy Rabbit up here on the goldfish stand where he can watch us, for he can't eat anything, you know.

  44. I hope they find me and take me home in time to save the goldfish from the cat.

  45. As soon as they sat down, the sliding doors opened and ten lovely goldfish dancers came out, and behind them followed ten red-carp musicians with the koto and the samisen.

  46. He came near calling in the police because I didn't give the goldfish fresh water--those over there on the buffet.

  47. On the right stands a buffet, on which are placed an aquarium with goldfish and dishes containing vegetables, fruit, preserves, etc.

  48. You remember our philanthropic friend, Mr. Hallock, who sent us the peanuts and goldfish and other indigestible trifles?

  49. Sadie Kate has just flown in from the nursery with news of a scarlet goldfish (Gordon's gift) swallowed by one of our babies.

  50. These were the gentlest goldfish and turtles.

  51. Very early the next day her swiftest goldfish carried her to the rock.

  52. Good-Night Beatrice A Child's Evensong An Epitaph on a Goldfish Beauty Accurst To a Dead Friend Sunset in the City The City in Moonlight V.

  53. Next time you hear of me I shall be back in that land of summer, watching the water splash over the marble mermaid in the fountain, and the goldfish swim by in the sun.

  54. It shook its petals into a splashing fountain where goldfish were always swimming around and around, and it was hard to tell which was the brightest, the falling rose-leaves, or the tiny goldfish flashing by in the sun.

  55. She was reaching for the goldfish with her fat little hands, and toppled in, head first.

  56. And before the alligator could grab Uncle Wiggily, the goldfish swam to shore with him, and he was safe.


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