How to Use bluefin tuna in a Sentence

bluefin tuna

noun

• First, the legal season for bluefin tuna is just 30-days.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2010
• The 3-year-old company plans to grow up to eight species of seafood, with mahi-mahi and bluefin tuna as its first products.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2021
• Single pieces of bluefin tuna could cost between $10 and $80 at a sushi restaurant.
  — Josie Goodrich, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• When Bill Bradley was young, his mother signed him up for enough swimming lessons to improve a bluefin tuna.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• Hiles dashed from the cabin to find one rod bent over, line screaming from the reel, as what would be the large bluefin tuna made a mad dash for the ocean floor a mile below the Toro.
  — Doug Howlett, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2020
• Up to 96% of the population of bluefin tuna in the region are gone, for example.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• The power, cut by the disaster all around, was still off and the contents of his fridge, swordfish and bluefin tuna, were going bad.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2017
• Fresh and canned bluefin tuna was available in local markets for cheap.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 3 July 2023
• Bluefish Not to be confused with bluefin tuna, raw bluefish is more of light purple than a deep red.
  — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• Finless bluefin tuna—that is, tuna made without the use of a once-live fish— could be coming soon to a grocery store near you.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 3 June 2019
• The pasta arrives last, after the Scottish salmon in yuzu ponzu, the karaage and the bluefin tuna belly with shiitake salsa.
  — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2021
• Western Atlantic bluefin tuna used to be the poster child for overfishing.
  — Capt. John McMurray, Field & Stream, 10 Feb. 2020
• Friday, more than 95 miles off the San Diego coast, as the boat chasing bluefin tuna east of an area known as Tanner Bank bobbed along the edge of a watery wilderness.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
• Muscular and ferocious, the bluefin tuna has long been a top choice of anglers and chefs, who prize the fight and the flavor of its warm-blooded deep red flesh.
  — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• But for his part, MacKenzie would rather hook a bluefin tuna, the largest of which can weigh north of 1,000 pounds and demand enough cash at market to cover a customer’s costs.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Researchers have found at least 200 species of fish, including Atlantic bluefin tuna and dusky sharks, within the canyon.
  — Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
• Twitter didn’t miss a beat in pointing out that Tumblr’s reported sales price was less than that of this bluefin tuna.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• There’s also a caviar flight with Champagne pairings and dry-aged bluefin tuna carpaccio.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Greene and crew unloaded a 600-pound-plus bluefin tuna at the Orange Beach Marina dock.
  — David Rainer Alabama Department Of Conservation and Natural Resources, al, 26 Jan. 2023
• The two have worked together for about 15 years and often fish for lobster, bluefin tuna and mackerel.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2021
• The omakase menu will change every month, but some of the autumn specialties are abalone with liver sauce, aged bluefin tuna, toro tartare toast with sturgeon caviar and more.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• The prospect of vanishing whales, polar bears, bluefin tuna, sea turtles, and wild coasts should be worrying enough on its own.
  — Alan B. Sielen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
• Red Light’s Jason Colton and his family stopped by as share-plates of bluefin tuna were distributed to say hello to old friends.
  — Jeff Miller, Variety, 16 Apr. 2022
• The six-day aged bluefin tuna O-toro served alongside a heap of black truffle shavings is a standout, as is the tuna Kakuni bathed in ginger soy.
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• For example, say two fishermen spend three hours on a boat catching 300 lbs of bluefin tuna.
  — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 29 May 2024
• And the raw bar would go on to offer such fanciful starters as bluefin tuna splashed with ginger-lime vinaigrette and presented in shiso wraps.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• Sasaki has wanted to open a restaurant based on tuna belly for ages — but not the fatty toro from bluefin tuna that’s prized in sushi restaurants.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
• Butch navigates his broad shoulders through the maze that is his cramped garage, past his freshly blessed boat, a freezer filled with bluefin tuna steaks, a 1966 Volvo up on blocks and two more boats.
  — Steven E. Banks, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
• Pacific bluefin tuna are the biggest tuna species in the Pacific Ocean.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 28 June 2024
• So, what the experts think is happening is that this orca population in particular, eats pretty much only bluefin tuna.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024