How to Use fishy in a Sentence

fishy

adjective

• There's something fishy about that guy.
• And no, the fish sauce won’t make the stew taste fishy.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Oct. 2020
• Fresh fish smells briny and not fishy, and is firm to the touch.
  — Mary Tomlinson, Southern Living, 10 July 2020
• Steer clear of brands that add lemon to get rid of the fishy taste.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 27 July 2023
• And with its mild, milky flesh, cod is one of the least fishy of them all.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• Over the past month, the fishy smell has grown ever stronger.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Fat from bears that eat a lot of dead salmon is said to taste fishy.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2024
• While the deal might sound a little fishy, there's no catch.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• But as Wahlquist reports, new species are just the tip of the fishy iceberg.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 June 2017
• This throws off the pH of your vagina and can create a bad, fishy odor in the process.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 21 Aug. 2017
• Swordfish was not overly fishy, and this one might have been the husky one of the catch.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• There are plenty of fish in the sea who aren't up to anything fishy.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 17 May 2020
• There are plenty of fish in the sea who aren’t up to anything fishy.
  — cleveland, 16 May 2020
• That fishy stench of old seafood or the fetid smell of rotting meat are foul smells, to be sure.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2021
• Here are the fries that are open this final Friday of fishy fun.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2024
• The mussels should smell fresh and briny not overly fishy.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2023
• The water has an odor that smells fishy or like gasoline.
  — Hannah Poukish, Sacramento Bee, 9 July 2024
• A strong fishy odor, though, could be a sign of an infection.
  — Amber Madison, Seventeen, 30 May 2017
• The flaky texture is a mix of six legumes, while the fishy flavor comes from algae oil.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2019
• Fresh fish isn’t supposed to have a fishy flavor or odor.
  — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
• Just beyond another door, the gurgle and hum of shrimp tanks mix with the salty, fishy smells of the ocean.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 July 2022
• Despite the hundreds of ponds and millions of fish, the farm smells anything but fishy.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2022
• Grown-ups, both black and white, find something fishy in this metaphysics.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 16 May 2021
• AOD Farms is part of a white-meat explosion that rivals the fishy one.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• At first, the Loon Project observed the duckling refusing the fishy food.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2019
• If these first episodes were better made, the fact that Whedon’s name leaves a fishy smell on the whole show would be more of a shame.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
• The fishy shoes also amuse his teammates, and it’s this sort of low-key fun that endears Belt to them.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• Hop on the trend early by grabbing your mermaid tale—and a few fishy friends, too.
  — Emily Becker, Women's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
• From there, the chatbot set about making the case that there was nothing fishy going on.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
• Installing a reverse osmosis filtration system can treat this issue and get rid of the fishy scent.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024