Eel

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"Eel" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Holding an eel too fast is the way to let her escape.

The politician is as slippery as an eel!

The eel I caught last week is still alive.

He's like an eel.

Tom's hand was bitten by a moray eel.

He wriggles like an eel.

Åle, the world's oldest eel, just died. He was approximately 150 years old.

Tom is slippery as an eel.

There is an eel in the water.

I have caught an eel.

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Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.

That Dennis is a right eel, he always seems to slip away from the scene at the right time.

His expression when incredulous. "Why would you think that?" He was a slippery little eel.

Philosophers and literary critics from ancient times, along with social scientists, physicians, theologians, and biblical scholars more recently, have tried to get a tentative handle, if not a firm grasp, on this "slippery eel" of humor and laughter.

John scowled after the dog. "Never fear, my lady. I shall get the sneaky, slippery eel yet."

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