How to Use fishbowl in a Sentence

fishbowl

noun
  • Being a politician these days means living in a fishbowl—every part of your life is open to public view.
  • And in this case, the job in question features the sport’s largest fishbowl.
    Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
  • If the eye is like a fishbowl, it's made of shards used for self-defense.
    Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
  • Athletes rarely got the chance to speak their minds from inside the fishbowl.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The Wine Whisperer, equipped with a box of wine and a fishbowl-sized wine glass. Mr./Mrs.
    Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 5 June 2020
  • Guests place the slips of paper in sealed envelopes that are then dropped in a fishbowl.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
  • One of those lunches was with me, at Michael’s restaurant, a fishbowl in those days for the literati.
    Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The bathroom, with its see-through walls and ceiling, feels like a bona-fide fishbowl.
    Nikki Ekstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Living in a fishbowl yields its share of challenges, of course.
    Shinan Govani, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2016
  • In the fishbowl environment of the NFL, there’s no end to the scrutiny, fair or not.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But a trip isn't all sugary frozen drinks and oversize fishbowls here.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 July 2023
  • Two clean samples in a row earn two draws from the fishbowl, three in a row earn three draws, and so on, up to a maximum of eight.
    Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Among them lay Sami’s shattered fishbowl and Sami, dead among the shards of glass.
    Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • The funnest part was leading up to it, looking in that fishbowl, taking him out, and jamming it in there.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 July 2020
  • On the other side of the glass at this longtime power-dining fishbowl, the mood was clear: This was dinner and a show.
    Katie Rogers, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2017
  • Owning your own pet fish takes more than just putting it in a fishbowl, feeding it once or twice a day, and calling it quits.
    Tim Kohut, BGR, 23 June 2021
  • As the board assembles, Roy stands with his nose to the window of the fishbowl conference room peering in.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The gilded fishbowl of his particular fame is a place many would drown.
    Chloe Walker, Longreads, 1 July 2022
  • As one of the most famous moms in the world, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is often parenting in a fishbowl.
    Mari-Jane Williams, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
  • My home now feels like a fishbowl of endless Zoom meetings and center stage for turf wars between my dog and cat (the cat always wins!).
    Alison Medley, Chron, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Suddenly Aram is holding Dr. Idigbe's fishbowl and sees his friends gunned down.
    Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 7 May 2022
  • Around the hour mark, however, the fishbowl comes off, and Far From Home reveals exactly why Gyllenhaal was the right man for the role.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 8 July 2019
  • The space is like a fishbowl, allowing people walking down North Camden Drive to see it.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • Hearst emerged, and, without a break, greeted me and led me into his personal fishbowl.
    Alan Deutschman, WIRED, 1 June 1995
  • There are over-the-top burgers, shakes and fishbowl-size drinks garnished with sugary, gummy candy.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Because the views are so broad, there is always a grand sense of its scale, of being caught in a giant fishbowl — a feeling enhanced by the enclosure of the roof.
    Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Rousteing’s muse, Kim Kardashian, was the queen of the night, dressed in a bra top and clinging skirt, and struggling to walk even a step through the fishbowl of fans looking to take selfies with her.
    Booth Moore, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
  • But in the cold dark of the mountains, with not a fishbowl cocktail or foam party to be found, the director put the kettle on and celebrated with a cup of tea.
    Thomas Page, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But the best amenity of all was a wall-spanning window that provided a fishbowl view of downtown and the ski trails of Aspen Mountain.
    Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2022
  • The first question Bryan pulls from the fishbowl is what his favorite cocktail is: vodka with ruby red grapefruit juice.
    Rebecca Schiller, Billboard, 5 June 2018

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