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Example sentences for "shrimping"

Lexicographically close words:
shrilling; shrillness; shrills; shrilly; shrimp; shrimps; shrine; shrined; shrines; shrink
  1. Arnold Bilverstone, emptying the pocket of the shrimping net into the basket between the thwarts.

  2. At the first gleam of daylight you are going out with me in a shrimping boat, to fish for shrimps round about Alderwick shoal.

  3. We used to go shrimping together, and said and thought we were in love with each other; at least he certainly said he was, and I certainly thought I was.

  4. Both Charlie and Hilda went out shrimping with us this morning, and got sopping wet, but they didn't mind in the least, and Mrs. Chester only laughed when they went back.

  5. Take 'en out shrimping or lifting crab-pots, stop rowing a minute an' he's fast asleep.

  6. Perhaps your surmise about the shrimping is wrong.

  7. You dredged them up, you said, when you were shrimping and searching for Miss Dean's bag--after the accident.

  8. He went shrimping off the end of the pier for the delectation of the mincing crowd of promenaders twice more.

  9. Linnell glanced aside, and saw that the swarthy fisherman who had been shrimping was not a couple of yards behind him.

  10. I took him over; but that 'ud the opposite way about, as he wanted to go shrimping back of the Bar so he said.

  11. Most of the time I have been on a shrimping schooner on the Gulf.

  12. And you want to watch out," Carlos added, "for a shrimping schooner of those fellows.

  13. I live at Pass Christian and work on a shrimping schooner.

  14. Just before supper was served the Fortuna was tied up alongside the wharf of the shrimping factory where the fishing vessels landed their cargoes.

  15. When do you think of going shrimping next?

  16. Presently the one called Sabina turned to him and said: "I say, will you come shrimping with us?

  17. All four thought of the spades and pails and shrimping nets, and of Eric and Elsie and the other books—and all said: “Yes.

  18. Wait till I tell your Ma—been shrimping I lay—or trying to—never asking when the tide was right.

  19. A boy with bare, brown legs was pushing his way through the little waves with a shrimping net, and further along a man was strolling by the water's edge, idly picking up pebbles and throwing them into the sea.

  20. She had passed the boy with the shrimping net, and had come abreast with the man sauntering at the water's edge without noticing it, until he spoke to her.

  21. Two women were shrimping in the river, the children were swimming to school, blue smoke curled up into the still air, kalo was baking among the stones, and a group of women sat sewing and making leis on the ground.

  22. The Waimanu day had begun; and it was odd to think that through the long summer years days dawned like this, and that the people of the valley grew grey and old in shrimping and sewing and kalo baking.

  23. He had come out with the intention of fishing, and not even the attractions of drill and ambulance could tempt him from trying his new shrimping net.

  24. Ronnie was too worn out and too frightened to call now; he lay watching the advancing water with terror-stricken blue eyes, still grasping the shrimping net that had led him to this disaster.

  25. He was playing with his little shrimping net.


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