How to Use chub in a Sentence

chub

noun

• Rainbow trout feed on the humpback chub in the lower basin.
  — Felicia Fonseca, The Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2020
• Customers with the chubs can toss them or return them to the place of purchse for full refund.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 2 Mar. 2018
• The Green River’s humpback chub and Colorado pikeminnow made the roster.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
• The ship's crew pulled in loads of whitefish, perch and oily chubs, which were popular for smoking.
  — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2019
• The only part of my body that chub had in fact chosen not to occupy, were my two twin beds.
  — Iman Hariri-Kia, Teen Vogue, 18 Dec. 2017
• The stakes for humpback chub and other native fishes are high.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
• Some Tui chubs are being seen in the shallows at times, which is the main source of forage for these trout and just in time for the post spawn bite when the fish put on the feed bag.
  — sacbee, 30 Apr. 2018
• Other species in the lake include the Lahontan tui chub, the Tahoe sucker, and the Sacramento perch.
  — Reno Tahoe, The Seattle Times, 30 June 2017
• The lake's prey fish work has been done annually since 1973 to monitor species such as alewife, smelt and bloater chub.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2020
• Apache trout, spikedace, razorback sucker and the Gila chub.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2020
• The chub first landed on the endangered list in 1967, four years after Glen Canyon Dam’s completion rocked its world.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2021
• Smallmouth bass feast on humpback chub in the river's upper section.
  — Brittany Peterson and John Flesher, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• One of the key elements will be the reintroduction of native fish, such as roundtail chub, longfin dace and Gila trout.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
• The trout and the threatened chub could get a reprieve, at least temporarily, if lake levels continue to fall.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Shallower water is warmer and flows through the creek even more slowly, leaving the Gila chub, an endangered fish, with nowhere to go.
  — Joe Duhownik, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
• The area is home to endangered species like the California condor and humpback chub, as well as more than a dozen endemic species of plants.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
• This proposal comes within months of a similar bid to downlist the humpback chub.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• The chub is resilient — but hasn't evolved to withstand the sudden introduction of predatory sport fish.
  — CBS News, 15 June 2022
• His restaurant uses 10-pound chubs about 18 inches long, cuts them into quarters and scores them, corkscrew-fashion.
  — Judy Walker, NOLA.com, 18 July 2017
• Scuds and other invertebrates scurry into the current along with maybe a chub or stoneroller or other small fish that live in the rocky matrix.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
• Humpback chub wouldn't be the only victims, McKinnon said.
  — CBS News, 15 June 2022
• The humpback chub helps illustrate Vigil's point that water is living, that the river basin is more than a plumbing system.
  — Judy Fahys, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2020
• The team also caught a dozen bluegill sunfish, seven largemouth bass, a single creek chub and four hybrid green and pumpkinseed sunfish.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
• The chub's story shows how probing natural systems on a small scale can lead to workable solutions.
  — Judy Fahys, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2020
• The chub have existed as a species for more than 3.5 million years, only to fall victim to human activity.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
• If a certain area containing Sonora chub shows signs of excessive grazing, the cows would be removed.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
• For trophy walleye don’t be afraid to rig up creek chub, red-tails, and larger profile baits such as Rippin’ Shads, Rippin’ Raps, and many of the other lipless style baits.
  — Brian Bashore, Outdoor Life, 21 Dec. 2020
• Now, biologists realized, neither the canyon nor its chub were safe.
  — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
• Lake Powell commandeered the Colorado’s payloads of silt and stymied natural floods, erasing channels and backwaters where chubs and suckers once spawned and reared.
  — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
• Today, however, four of those fish—the humpback chub, the Colorado pikeminnow, the razorback sucker, and the bonytail—are federally listed as threatened or endangered.
  — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024