How to Use fish out in a Sentence

fish out

verb

• Remove from the heat and fish out the chipotles from the saucepan.
  — Janelle Bitker, Tanay Warerkar, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Nov. 2021
• My foot flopped all over the place, like a fish out of water.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 9 June 2022
• Cut circles in the top of a shoebox and drop in treats for your cat to fish out.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Jan. 2023
• That will probably still call for a few golf balls fished out of the woods.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 4 Aug. 2023
• Texas Tech stocked the lake inside the Rawls Course on campus for Tadlock to fish out of.
  — Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2021
• Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Either the whale dove at the last minute or the recording device slipped off the whale’s back and had to be fished out of the water.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• But away from Capitol Hill, Mr. Dole was a fish out of water.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• At law school, he’s felt like a fish out of water for months among those who have their life planned out.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Sat in a Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles, Hill is a fish out of water.
  — Vulture, 5 Jan. 2023
• How much did Caleb Jones feel like a fish out of water playing left wing?
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
• Often noodlers will catch the same fish out of the same hole multiple times in a season.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023
• Many survive the impact and are fished out by rescuers.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The concept here is simple: One fish out of two waters.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• The woman had been fished out of the Rio Grande minutes earlier.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• And adding to that is there's a fish out of water story that's implicit in that.
  — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2021
• And just like Natasha, Baptista often feels like a fish out of water in her own field.
  — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 18 July 2022
• After being chased away, Smith and Clements went back to the lake to fish out their clothes now floating on the water.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• Nikola Jovic already has felt like a fish out of water.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
• Feeling like a fish out of water in the stunt world only helped to play Helena.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Four days later, his shirtless body was fished out of Newtown Creek.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
• The group posted a YouTube video Thursday of the brown pelican attempting to grab small fish out of a blue crate.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2024
• When sauce is finished cooking, fish out basil sprigs and discard.
  — Sutanya Dacres, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
• Kingfish also worked in the sense that Ingram was himself a fish out of water.
  — Clint Carter, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
• Assemble a frank-and-beans concoction where the cook has to fish out can lids and plastic before putting it in the oven?
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• Watching someone go from the shock of a fish out of water to a hardened killer is one of the most thrilling tropes in all of TV history.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
• Tom scoops a fish out of the sports agency aquarium on his way out, which is certainly one way to go.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2023
• Lisa pleads with her mom about taking her fish with her and when her mom says no, Natalie smuggles the fish out in her mouth.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 15 Apr. 2023
• This year’s winner was 128 Grazer, a mama bear with grizzled, light brown fur and now one of the fattest bears to fish out of the Brooks River.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• It is surrounded by American elms and is a fish out of water.
  — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 22 May 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024