How to Use fishbowl in a Sentence

fishbowl

noun

• Being a politician these days means living in a fishbowl—every part of your life is open to public view.
• And in this case, the job in question features the sport’s largest fishbowl.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
• If the eye is like a fishbowl, it's made of shards used for self-defense.
  — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
• Athletes rarely got the chance to speak their minds from inside the fishbowl.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• The Wine Whisperer, equipped with a box of wine and a fishbowl-sized wine glass. Mr./Mrs.
  — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 5 June 2020
• Guests place the slips of paper in sealed envelopes that are then dropped in a fishbowl.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
• One of those lunches was with me, at Michael’s restaurant, a fishbowl in those days for the literati.
  — Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2022
• The bathroom, with its see-through walls and ceiling, feels like a bona-fide fishbowl.
  — Nikki Ekstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Living in a fishbowl yields its share of challenges, of course.
  — Shinan Govani, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2016
• There were five fishbowls, fruit baskets and a roll of paper towels on the counter.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2024
• In the fishbowl environment of the NFL, there’s no end to the scrutiny, fair or not.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• But a trip isn't all sugary frozen drinks and oversize fishbowls here.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 July 2023
• The best was a clean car with a fishbowl windshield—someone who had money but was stupid.
  — Jared Lemus, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
• Two clean samples in a row earn two draws from the fishbowl, three in a row earn three draws, and so on, up to a maximum of eight.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
• Among them lay Sami’s shattered fishbowl and Sami, dead among the shards of glass.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• The funnest part was leading up to it, looking in that fishbowl, taking him out, and jamming it in there.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 July 2020
• On the other side of the glass at this longtime power-dining fishbowl, the mood was clear: This was dinner and a show.
  — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2017
• Owning your own pet fish takes more than just putting it in a fishbowl, feeding it once or twice a day, and calling it quits.
  — Tim Kohut, BGR, 23 June 2021
• As the board assembles, Roy stands with his nose to the window of the fishbowl conference room peering in.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2022
• The gilded fishbowl of his particular fame is a place many would drown.
  — Chloe Walker, Longreads, 1 July 2022
• As one of the most famous moms in the world, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is often parenting in a fishbowl.
  — Mari-Jane Williams, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
• My home now feels like a fishbowl of endless Zoom meetings and center stage for turf wars between my dog and cat (the cat always wins!).
  — Alison Medley, Chron, 7 Nov. 2020
• Suddenly Aram is holding Dr. Idigbe's fishbowl and sees his friends gunned down.
  — Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 7 May 2022
• Around the hour mark, however, the fishbowl comes off, and Far From Home reveals exactly why Gyllenhaal was the right man for the role.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 8 July 2019
• The space is like a fishbowl, allowing people walking down North Camden Drive to see it.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• Hearst emerged, and, without a break, greeted me and led me into his personal fishbowl.
  — Alan Deutschman, WIRED, 1 June 1995
• There are over-the-top burgers, shakes and fishbowl-size drinks garnished with sugary, gummy candy.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2022
• Because the views are so broad, there is always a grand sense of its scale, of being caught in a giant fishbowl — a feeling enhanced by the enclosure of the roof.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 16 Oct. 2020
• Rousteing’s muse, Kim Kardashian, was the queen of the night, dressed in a bra top and clinging skirt, and struggling to walk even a step through the fishbowl of fans looking to take selfies with her.
  — Booth Moore, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
• But in the cold dark of the mountains, with not a fishbowl cocktail or foam party to be found, the director put the kettle on and celebrated with a cup of tea.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024