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Example sentences for "mullet"

Lexicographically close words:
mullahs; mulled; mullein; mulleins; mullers; mullets; mulligatawny; mulling; mullion; mullioned
  1. Trout and mullet were jumping in the pools under the bank; and they caught several before stopping to eat their own meal.

  2. Meanwhile Euergetes has returned, and from the forecastle comes the sputter of red mullet cooking.

  3. Seventy red mullet have I seen fetched at one haul out of those delectable waters, remote and enchanted as the lake whence the fisherman at the genie's orders drew fish for the young king of the Black Isles.

  4. I have supposed it to be of the mullet kind.

  5. Seam to Subsist principally on a Species of Mullet which weighs from one to 3 pds.

  6. I made a few of the men construct a sein of willow brush which we hawled and caught a large number of fine trout and a kind of mullet about 16 Inhes long which I had not seen before.

  7. No less than a dozen ruddy mullet were there too; and the above-named being the good fish of the haul, the residue was left on deck for the boys to examine and save what they pleased.

  8. But for chaste love the Mullet hath no peer; For, if the fisher hath surpris'd her pheer As mad with wo, to shore she followeth Prest to consort him, both in life and death.

  9. He only demanded in addition a few of those delicious grey mullet which are caught around the solitary mount.

  10. Stevedores without employment are as abundant as plank without purchasers, and uneasy as a mullet out of water.

  11. That's a mullet jumping at the prospect of being caught by us, or perhaps exerting its utmost activity to escape a hungry bass.

  12. Schools of mullet swarm in these waters, constituting an article of commerce.

  13. Twelve successive swoops for a mullet flopping on the sand failed, though it was touched at least six times with the tips of the eagle's outstretched talons.

  14. As we neared the beach one day a big sea-mullet came into view.

  15. Red mullet may be broiled, and should be folded in oiled paper, the same as in the preceding recipe, and seasoned with pepper and salt.

  16. The best place to procure mullet is in a certain tavern where gondoliers and sailors mostly congregate: here they can drink wine free of duty.

  17. San Giorgio is of note as the place for red mullet from the Adriatic.

  18. The puddinba is like a mullet in shape, but larger, and very fat; it is esteemed a great delicacy.

  19. Regulations under the Fisheries Conservation Act': "The months of December, January, and February in each year are here prescribed a close season for the fish of the species of the mugil known as mullet or kanae.

  20. Our first business was to obtain a supply of bait, which was easily procured with our landing-nets, and consisted of small mullet and other little fish, which had to be kept alive.

  21. Our fishing was to be done mainly by trolling, and as soon as we had our bait, Colonel Shepard had a mullet on one of his approved squids.

  22. The Fai, or stinging ray fish, and also the mullet were incarnations of Moso the strong in another family.

  23. The sea eel, octopus, and mullet were incarnations of this god.

  24. These they unite together, and, in the lagoon off their settlement, take large quantities of mullet and other fish.

  25. The turtle and the mullet were sacred to him, and eaten only by the priest.

  26. Here the shore was sandy and shelving, and sprinkled with clumps of succulent seaweed which grew up from the rocks below, a favorite feeding ground, as Mitsos knew, for mullet and sole.

  27. Eight mullet and a dozen other fish," he said.

  28. Our mullet is white & imberbis [see Note 63] butt wee haue also a mullis barbatus ruber miniaceus or cinnaberinus somewhat rough & butt drye meat.

  29. And with one hand he picked out a small mullet from his basket, threw it with a swift and certain aim at Anastasi's face, and ran laughing off.

  30. In the intense quiet the splash of leaping mullet sounded distinctly.

  31. He looked as though his name ought to be Slunk; he was digging coquina clams, and he dug with a pecking motion like a water-turkey mastering a mullet too big for it.

  32. The Red Mullet (Mullus barbatus) is clothed in brilliant colours of bright red, mingling with silvery tints upon the side and belly; it presents fine indistinct reflections, but none of the yellow lines which occur in the preceding species.

  33. Agony of a Red Mullet at the Feast of Hortensius.

  34. With the Romans the mullet was an object of luxury on which they expended fabulous sums; they cultivated the fish in their fish-ponds not only as a delicacy of the table, but for the beauty of form and colour.

  35. It is to its brilliant colouring that the red mullet owes much of its celebrity.


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