How to Use fish story in a Sentence

fish story

noun
  • He told a ridiculous fish story about a swarm of giant mosquitoes.
  • Simply email your true fish story, no tall tales, to fputthoff@nwadg.com.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Share your fish stories, adventures, tips and tricks with him at tightlinesboise@gmail.com.
    Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 14 May 2018
  • But the folk tale has seemingly remained just that — a fish story.
    Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Biggest fish story: The ongoing collapse of cod in the Gulf of Alaska and the closure of the fishery.
    Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Share your fish stories, adventures, tips and tricks at outdoors@idahostatesman.
    Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 22 May 2018
  • Share your fish stories, adventures, tips and tricks at tightlinesboise@gmail.com.
    Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 12 July 2018
  • Share your fish stories, adventures, tips and tricks at outdoors@idahostatesman.com.
    Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Kipling’s fame reached across the globe in those last years of the 19th century, and so Oregonians reveled in his fish story.
    oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Every fisherman has a big fish story that their friends find hard to believe.
    Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The Arctic Report Cards each December since then have been a northern fish story, with the salmon getting bigger with each telling.
    Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2019
  • However, the big fish story of the day had to be the one related by Joe, who spent nearly 30 years as a diver and welder working on underwater pipelines.
    Ralph Winingham, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Then it gets spread all over town in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's annual fish story contest.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 20 Apr. 2021
  • But a cellphone video filmed during Hurricane Ian’s assault on southwest Florida isn’t just another fish story.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022

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