goldfish

noun

gold·fish ˈgōl(d)-ˌfish

: a small usually golden-orange Asian cyprinid fish (Carassius auratus) often kept as an aquarium and pond fish

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Listen to this article A Brooklyn man known for creating a makeshift aquarium under a leaking fire hydrant on a Bedford-Stuyvesant sidewalk was sentenced Friday for a 2023 shooting that took place just steps from where visitors would later delight in the school of goldfish. —

Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025 Thornton opened his empty mouth like a goldfish, articulating an almost silent pouf. —

Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024 Lovick, with friends Je-Quan Irving and Floyd Washington, cleaned out the muck and stocked the puddle with a 50-bag of goldfish from the neighborhood pet store. —

The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024 Plus this magnificent bird can be spotted wading in virtually all the city's creeks, lakes and wetlands, indeed in many backyard goldfish ponds, to the distress of humans. —

Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for goldfish