How to Use darter in a Sentence

darter

noun

• The darter isn’t the only species struggling in the Pearl.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2021
• The darter was in place well before the buck was due to arrive.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• The discovery brings the known number of darter species to five.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 May 2022
• Because of the need to stay silent, the protocol was for the darter to send a message to Stevens by WhatsApp.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• The dead fish have mostly been small suckers, minnows, darters and sculpin.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• Dams and pollution long ago stripped the Pearl River of its namesake fish, the Pearl darter.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2021
• Still, no Maryland darters turned up, though five other darter species were present.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Take for example the trispot darter—a small, handsome finned fish found only in a few places in the southeastern U.S.
  — National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2019
• The rainbow darter is a 2- to 3-inch-long fish typically found along the bottom of small streams or medium-sized rivers.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• The Maryland darter was only ever known to inhabit a narrow corner of the ninth-smallest state.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• The fountain darter fish is even smaller than the now-extinct gambusia, growing to be just about a centimeter long.
  — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2022
• That total includes about 645 game fish, such as bass or sunfish, and a large number of small, non-game fish, such as shiners and minnows and the slackwater darters.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al.com, 5 June 2019
• The drought rules seek to preserve flows at Comal and San Marcos springs, which support habitat of the fountain darter and other endangered species.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 21 May 2018
• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the darter and ordered construction the dam halted, but Congress passed a new law granting an exception to the Tellico.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Republic, 9 May 2018
• Another darter was named for former Vice President Al Gore, in honor of his work on climate change.
  — Richard Pyle, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2016
• An estimated 3,500 fish -- such as minnows, darters and sculpin -- have died in creeks and rivers around the area, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Jenkins likes to start beginning surfcasters with three plugs: a pencil popper, a swimming plug, and a darter.
  — Steve Culton, Field & Stream, 22 Mar. 2021
• Naples Zoo marketing director Courtney Jolly said that that when the zoo is open there is a crisis team present that includes a shooter and lead darter, but the zoo was not open when the attack occurred.
  — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2021
• The candy darter was listed as endangered in November 2018.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
• The rest of the fish community includes muskellunge, northern pike, white sucker, brown bullhead, yellow perch, spot-tail shiner, Johnny darter and a handful of other small species.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2018
• Larry Welcome developed the wooden bottle darter in 1994.
  — John Merwin, Field & Stream, 23 Oct. 2019
• In 2012, scientists named a small aqua and orange speckled freshwater darter endemic to a few select drainages of the Tennessee River Etheostoma Obama.
  — Richard Pyle, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2016
• The darter’s outlook improved after some were moved to other streams, more populations were discovered, and stream water became cleaner.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 13 Oct. 2022
• In those situations, rig it externally on a traditional ball or darter head, though either will slightly dull its action.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• The Alabama shad, frecklebelly madtom, and crystal darter are also mostly gone, and minnows like the Mobile chub and the fluvial shiner no longer appear at sites where Suttkus commonly caught them.
  — Richard Conniff, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
• Candy darters typically live in picturesque mountain streams.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
• The judges said the agency should have evaluated how the pipeline—in conjunction with road improvement, urbanization, water withdrawals, agriculture and climate change—could affect the logperch and candy darter fish years into the future.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024