How to Use fish for in a Sentence

fish for

phrasal verb

• The goal, in part, is to restore the spawning grounds for fish for the first time in more than 100 years.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• How to catch them: Bluegill are one of the most enjoyable species to fish for.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The children fished for tadpoles in the stone pond while the rest of us snacked on fava beans and made small talk.
  — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
• Indeed, some trout purists and bass freaks wouldn’t so much as touch a carp let alone fish for them.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2023
• Their guides will take you fishing for trout, flounder, black drum, sheepshead, sharks, and more.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 24 July 2023
• The name was a signal to Indigenous tribes around the Great Lakes area that August was the best time to fish for sturgeon.
  — Amudalat Ajasa, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Mohammed Ahmed, 60, has been chopping fish for decades.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• Order the octopus salad and grilled fish for your last seafood feast in Dubrovnik.
  — Wendy Hu, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2023
• Each team is allowed to fish for eight Walleye, but only weigh five.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
• Some are fishing for the first time, and others, like Dennis Shepard, have been doing it for for decades.
  — Jenna Wang, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
• The only problem is that you’re not really supposed to fish for them.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
• Go to hike, bike on dirt paths, admire ancient ice fields, and watch from afar as grizzlies fish for their dinner.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
• Pack your gear and test your skills while fishing for perch in Lake Cascade during any season.
  — Jennifer Prince, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
• After adult salmon have spawned and died off in the fall, the Yurok people rely on the long, ugly fish for sustenance in the winter months.
  — oregonlive, 17 June 2023
• This is reassuring to many people who eat fish or catch fish for sport.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2023
• In July, the water was so hot that when the hunters would normally be fishing for crabs, the crabs moved to deeper waters.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Today, the retired businessman is fishing for gold, silver and gems from the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1656.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 27 July 2023
• These anglers have been chasing down record-breaking fish for several years and have now added this catch to their list.
  — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
• The team dry ages their fish for seven to 10 days at 34 degrees with Himalayan salt blocks in the base of the locker in order to achieve the best (see: most delicious) results.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Bill Milner normally took to the quiet waters of the Neches River to fish for bass or lunch on a sandbank.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Both species, however, are now and have been considered southern fish for many decades.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 20 Sep. 2023
• That there’s a character who was ordering fish for a room full of hungry penguins.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• Just let the hose wash the fish for 10 minutes or so to drain away as much slime as possible, then wipe the fish down with paper towels before putting it on the cutting board.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 20 July 2023
• At a stockyard beneath the bleachers, some cowhands cooked fish for breakfast just after sunrise.
  — Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• Denson’s father came back to Milwaukee with a simple idea for himself and his friends — take their sons fishing for a day.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
• The group was fishing for capelin, a type of fish that is typically found along the shore, during nighttime hours, the outlet reported.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
• Back then, Graves worked at an oil refinery in California and fished for sockeye salmon in Alaska to raise funds for the restaurant.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
• Nami won a smaller amount of fish for finishing second.
  — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
• Seafood Families in Iceland almost always had fish for one of their daily meals.
  — Claire Volkman, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
• The next morning, Kevin Simon, 60, was fishing for giant tuna off Provincetown with a small group that included his wife and two sons.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024