How to Use kingfish in a Sentence

kingfish

noun
  • 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
  • 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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