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Example sentences for "large fish"

  • Large fish-baskets made of split reeds are used in trios for catching small fish; one man at each basket drives fish ashore.

  • Another little-known form, intermediate between the whitefish and the salmon, is Brachymystax lenock, a large fish of the mountain streams of Siberia.

  • Aprion virescens, the Uku of Hawaii, is a large fish of a greenish color and elongate body, widely diffused throughout Polynesia and one of the best of food-fishes.

  • Heterotis nilotica is a large fish of the Nile.

  • This is a large fish reaching a length of nearly three feet.

  • We were informed, that the French ships, while in Botany Bay, had met with one very successful haul of large fish, that more than amply supplied both ships companies; but our people were not so fortunate.

  • Bennillong told me, his name was that of a large fish, but one that I never saw taken.

  • A large fish-hook laid baited in running water, attached by a line to the bank.

  • The roe of the mullet pressed flat and dried; that of commerce, however, is from the tunny, a large fish of passage which is common in the Mediterranean.

  • A large fish of the Mesoprion genus, frequenting tropical seas, and prized in the Jamaica markets.

  • It was a large fish, and, as the bird flew heavily upward, the eagle again left its perch, and gave chase.

  • It was a large fish, a sturgeon, floating dead, with a bird beside it, also dead!

  • The tittameg is not a large fish; the largest attain to the weight of about eight pounds.

  • Put the bottles up to their necks in water, in a large fish-kettle, set it on the fire, and scald them.

  • It will take forty minutes to boil, if a large fish.

  • He must have been a large fish, or he could not have disentangled himself from so strong a gut.

  • Very well; I see he is a large fish,—take your time.

  • If in a weedy river you allow a large fish to run up stream, you are almost sure to lose him.

  • I dare say he was a large fish; but I have known very correct, and even cool, reasoners in error on a point of this kind.

  • Here he is called a jhasha which means "large fish.

  • But as Saktideva fell, a large fish, opening its mouth and neck, swallowed him without injuring any of his limbs.

  • But it so happened that when the ship came near Suvarnadvipa, it was swallowed, with the princess and the people on board, by a large fish.

  • Soon he began to move his head rapidly about, then he made some rapid strides into deep water, into which he plunged his long beak, and presently rose with a large fish held by it.

  • Scarcely had we got the fish in, when we had another bite, and this was also a large fish, and occupied us some time.

  • I may as well say that the dugong is a large fish found in these waters, from ten to twelve feet in length, of the whale species.

  • I should say that it was a large fish,” said Bill after Bob had vainly tried for several minutes to bring it in.

  • Every time that he made a cast, a large fish struck at the fly.

  • It was quite evident that Earl had quite a large fish on his line.

  • Quick as a flash a large fish darted up, snapped away the little one, and was gone before Ran could raise his spear.

  • One night, when the cold rains were over, and the trees in the valley were covered with fresh new leaves, Adh was sitting on a flat rock in front of his cave, eating a large fish.

  • One day, while resting on the river bank, he saw a large fish snap up a little one and devour it.

  • The artificial minnow of various kinds, the spoon, and the dead bait on a crocodile or Archer spinner are all used, and the prawn has lately been tried with deadly effect on large fish.

  • They are the king salmon or quinnat, a large fish running up to over 80lb.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large fish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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