How to Use sturgeon in a Sentence

sturgeon

noun

• The largest fish in the Badger State is the lake sturgeon.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2022
• Could the Maryland’s first farmed salmon be a threat to the last of its sturgeon?
  — Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2022
• The cells that go on to form the armor on the flanks of the sturgeon start out as part of the nervous system.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2023
• The next step is to test the beads and powders inside Mote’s sturgeon tanks.
  — Christina Procopiou, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2016
• The loss of our lake sturgeon has been much like the slaughter of the buffalo.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2018
• Add a small pinch of piment d’espelette pepper, diced smoked sturgeon and the crème fraiche off the heat.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2021
• Among them are the green sturgeon and the American beaver, both in the United States.
  — Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
• Fishermen cut out the roe from the sturgeon and often tossed the fish back in the water to die.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2022
• Lake sturgeon can exceed 6 feet in length and weigh over 200 pounds.
  — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2018
• The gorges and pools in this part of the Danube were long a home to sturgeon and other large fish that sustained human life.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• By day's end, arms were tired from landing more than a dozen sturgeon.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 June 2019
• Remove the baking sheet from the oven; top each nacho with a jalapeno slice and a small dab of sturgeon caviar.
  — Stephanie Wu, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2014
• This month, keep an eye on the night sky for two supermoons: a full sturgeon moon and a full blue moon.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
• This year, Talmadge said, the biggest turnouts have been for sturgeon.
  — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
• The nova there is unctuous, The sturgeon’s like a dream.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2019
• The park sits right on the mighty Snake River, which is home to big smallmouth bass, rainbow trout and sturgeon.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 24 May 2017
• The full moon was given this name because sturgeons were most often caught around this time of the year.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2023
• That is when sturgeon and striped bass often arrive to dine.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
• Much of it is culled from a sturgeon hybrid called Kaluga.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• The harvest limit for the season was six lake sturgeon.
  — Tanya Wildt, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
• The sturgeon bite should last well through April, but many of the six-pack operators will be heading to the bay soon.
  — sacbee, 20 Mar. 2018
• Prices range from $1 for a raspberry oat bar dessert to $19 for sturgeon with red cabbage and wheat berries.
  — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
• Or the sturgeon, which has an origin of similar age and lacks scales but has a body covered in bony plates.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2023
• The dinosaur-like pallid sturgeon can grow up to 6 feet (1.83 meters) long.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• Paddlefish are one-of-a-kind, in the same family as sturgeon.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2018
• Groundwater is cold enough to raise cold-water fish, such as trout and sturgeon.
  — National Geographic, 14 July 2016
• He is also forbidden to keep the salmon, bass and sturgeon his traps collect.
  — Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
• There are many different species of sturgeon which produce their own unique type of caviar.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 July 2021
• But the fisherman, who for ages had fed their families with, among other less-salable parts, the roe of the sturgeon so plentiful in their waters.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2024
• Zoom in: Native aquatic plants and underwater grass beds will be added to the marsh to create nursery habitat for species such as blue crabs, the Gulf sturgeon and rangia clams, officials say.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024