How to Use fish for in a Sentence

fish for

phrasal verb

• Check the pier's website to find out when kids can fish for free.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 18 June 2024
• The goal, in part, is to restore the spawning grounds for fish for the first time in more than 100 years.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• How to catch them: Bluegill are one of the most enjoyable species to fish for.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• But all three can be a lot of fun to fish for when just looking to have a good time.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 8 May 2024
• The children fished for tadpoles in the stone pond while the rest of us snacked on fava beans and made small talk.
  — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
• Indeed, some trout purists and bass freaks wouldn’t so much as touch a carp let alone fish for them.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2023
• Their guides will take you fishing for trout, flounder, black drum, sheepshead, sharks, and more.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 24 July 2023
• The name was a signal to Indigenous tribes around the Great Lakes area that August was the best time to fish for sturgeon.
  — Amudalat Ajasa, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Mohammed Ahmed, 60, has been chopping fish for decades.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• Order the octopus salad and grilled fish for your last seafood feast in Dubrovnik.
  — Wendy Hu, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2023
• Each team is allowed to fish for eight Walleye, but only weigh five.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
• Some are fishing for the first time, and others, like Dennis Shepard, have been doing it for for decades.
  — Jenna Wang, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
• The only problem is that you’re not really supposed to fish for them.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
• Go to hike, bike on dirt paths, admire ancient ice fields, and watch from afar as grizzlies fish for their dinner.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
• Some anglers travel into the mountains to fish for brown, rainbow and brook trout.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2024
• Pack your gear and test your skills while fishing for perch in Lake Cascade during any season.
  — Jennifer Prince, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
• After adult salmon have spawned and died off in the fall, the Yurok people rely on the long, ugly fish for sustenance in the winter months.
  — oregonlive, 17 June 2023
• This is reassuring to many people who eat fish or catch fish for sport.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2023
• Listen to this article The Lakers are fishing for a coach.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 11 June 2024
• In July, the water was so hot that when the hunters would normally be fishing for crabs, the crabs moved to deeper waters.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Today, the retired businessman is fishing for gold, silver and gems from the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1656.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 27 July 2023
• There’s a lot of cleaning equipment, chopping frozen fish for fish smoothies and scrubbing slimy pinniped poop out of the pens.
  — Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• He got started in 1976, fishing for salmon in Bristol Bay with his father and brothers.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 14 June 2024
• These anglers have been chasing down record-breaking fish for several years and have now added this catch to their list.
  — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
• The trout's recovery is due in no small part to the hard work of the White Mountain Apache tribe, whose wildlife managers kept close watch over populations of the fish for years.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
• The former public servant, a father of two, now fishes for a living.
  — Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• The team dry ages their fish for seven to 10 days at 34 degrees with Himalayan salt blocks in the base of the locker in order to achieve the best (see: most delicious) results.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Bill Milner normally took to the quiet waters of the Neches River to fish for bass or lunch on a sandbank.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Anglers can fish for largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye, wiper, catfish, and trout.
  — Margaret Jackson, The Denver Post, 11 June 2024
• Both species, however, are now and have been considered southern fish for many decades.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 20 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024