Fishes

//ˈfɪʃɪz//

"Fishes" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Almost every day he goes to the river and fishes.

The pond was alive with tiny fishes.

The pond was alive with various tiny fishes.

Whales are similar to fishes in shape.

Such fishes as carp and trout live in fresh water.

He is raising tropical fishes.

They became food for fishes.

Today is Tuesday. I am buying fishes.

Tom usually fishes off the dock, but sometimes he fishes from the shore.

We learned to fly like birds and swim like fishes, but we forgot how to live like humans.

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Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.

I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes

I caught six fishes today!

The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Matthew 14:17: “And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.”

"The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."

He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.

An Arabic constellation placed instead of the Piscis Australis, because the swallow arrives in Arabia about the time of the heliacal rising of the Fishes.

Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names.

For they are so easy to recall if you do it in associated pairs—like the Maid and the Twins, the Bull and the Rain, the Fishes and the Scales.

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