How to Use kingfish in a Sentence
kingfish
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Most of the top teams weighed four kingfish and four blackfin tunas.
— Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 May 2017 -
Another angler hooked a kingfish off the Jupiter ledge that was in the 70-pound range but a shark cut it in half.
— Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2020 -
His 35-pound kingfish catch was the heaviest fish caught in the tournament.
— Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022 -
Shugart's catch, the third to weigh in, proved untouchable, a mammoth kingfish at nearly 50 pounds that held up comfortably through the entire day.
— Clayton Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022 -
Is warming water attracting more southern species like kingfish to places like Cape Cod?
— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 20 Sep. 2023 -
Brothers Gregory and Austin Jones are both registered to go after kingfish in the junior tournament, and were all smiles roaming around the grounds of the main rodeo on Friday.
— Michael Dumas, al.com, 20 July 2019 -
That means the bait stealers and nuisance species will become less prevalent and fishing for species like whiting, also known as Gulf kingfish, will become hot, Thornton said.
— Frank Sargeant, al, 19 Sep. 2021 -
Farther out in the Gulf waters, offshore trophies such as tuna, kingfish, sailfish, and marlin prove bountiful game.
— Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 20 June 2023 -
The creative, well thought out menu includes classics with a focus on the highest quality ingredients such as chocolate-fed wagyu, and Australian kingfish.
— Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 6 May 2022 -
Other dishes incorporate oysters grown in the Arabian Gulf, edible flowers sourced from a desert garden, Emirati kingfish, and native desert plants, to name a few.
— Alicia Erickson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2021
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