How to Use fish for in a Sentence

fish for

phrasal verb

• Throw it on some pork or fish for the same flavor and crunch.
  — Craig Ruff, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2025
• Check the pier's website to find out when kids can fish for free.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 18 June 2024
• 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
• But all three can be a lot of fun to fish for when just looking to have a good time.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 8 May 2024
• The first phase will be big enough to serve 1,600 people at a time with live and fresh fish for sale.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 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
• There's no good answer to a question like that, but Baier went fishing for one.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Reed and other members of the Karuk Tribe have been fishing for fall-run Chinook.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
• 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
• This time researchers were able to purchase and examine the fish for themselves.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Some anglers travel into the mountains to fish for brown, rainbow and brook trout.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2024
• 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
• Listen to this article The Lakers are fishing for a coach.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 11 June 2024
• 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
• There’s a lot of cleaning equipment, chopping frozen fish for fish smoothies and scrubbing slimy pinniped poop out of the pens.
  — Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• He got started in 1976, fishing for salmon in Bristol Bay with his father and brothers.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 14 June 2024
• 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
• Seafood Families in Iceland almost always had fish for one of their daily meals.
  — Claire Volkman, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 9 Mar 2025