How to Use fishing expedition in a Sentence

fishing expedition

noun

• Now that’s the sort of fly-fishing expedition that might send Logan to the bait shop.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2021
• This is just a huge fishing expedition that the law doesn't allow.
  — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• Jen invites all the Housewives to an ice-fishing expedition at Echo Lake in Coalville.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2021
• Spota’s staff members, who would have had to request the warrants for that data, waved off the idea as a fishing expedition.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Some courts have held that this kind of fishing expedition is analogous to the broad document requests in the Hubbell case.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2020
• The Magnolia Network star, 45, shared a fun video of son Crew, 5, enjoying an indoor fishing expedition as the two try to beat the south's heat.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
• But first, was the raid on Trump's personal attorney just a proxy move by Mueller in his fishing expedition?
  — Fox News, 14 Apr. 2018
• The staff here is ready to do anything for guests, from looking after their pets to booking a clay shooting or fishing expedition.
  — Alyson Krueger, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2018
• To do this, a team in my lab went on a molecular fishing expedition inside human cells.
  — Nevan Krogan, University Of California, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
• Prince: How is this germane to this fishing expedition?
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Dec. 2017
• For bigger marine thrills, a dolphin cruise yields sightings in the thousands, and a fishing expedition turns up sailfish the size of small children.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2021
• The two kept in touch over the years, with Jacobson inviting Truman on hunting and fishing expeditions on the Missouri River.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
• Episode 4 picks up where Episode 3 left off, with Lisa trying to broker peace between her two friends during an ice fishing expedition at Echo Lake.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Oct. 2021
• But there's a little extra drama that did not make the episode, revolving around what should have been a simple fishing expedition.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• The evaluation is a kind of fishing expedition, in which doctors thread an array of electrodes into the brain and wait for seizures to occur to see whether surgery might prevent them.
  — Benedict Carey, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
• Not content to keep the bafflement in-house, or perhaps as a fishing expedition, the folks at NASA presented the photo to the space-curious public.
  — Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2018
• The father of three hasn’t been seen since going on a regular morning fishing expedition.
  — Alastair Jamieson, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2018
• Any fears of a fishing expedition can be assuaged by search protections already baked into the laws, Wexler told The Chronicle.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2020
• Candela wants to make your next fishing expedition smoother and more sustainable.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2023
• The retired schoolteacher opened a cooler full of shrimp from an acquaintance who went on a fishing expedition 130 miles south in a river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
• People of the Jomon culture likely hunted and fished to survive, and Tsukumo No. 24 may have perished during such a fishing expedition.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2021
• Democrats have denounced the inquiry as a fishing expedition and a political stunt.
  — Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Criminologists and civil rights lawyers have panned the tactic as a fishing expedition rife with racial bias that yields few results.
  — NBC News, 7 Oct. 2021
• There is still today at the end of the day no corroboration and you just don't open an FBI investigation as a fishing expedition to try and find something that doesn't exist.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
• Michelson said the question was irrelevant to the case, and instructed Paterson to be more precise, rather than go off on fishing expeditions.
  — Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 14 May 2018
• The scientists’ Galileo Project will be a $1.6 million fishing expedition unlike any other.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2022
• The search warrant is nothing more than the kind of unreasonable and oppressive 'fishing expedition' the Kentucky Supreme Court has forbidden.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 5 Sep. 2017
• Data mining, fishing expeditions and data dredging are other descriptors that had been applied to the act of p-hacking.
  — Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
• This sophomore effort flashes back and forth between the springtime unfurling of Mungo and James’ love (forged in the dovecote where James raises pigeons) and the goose-pimpling fishing expedition a few months later.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• But until the systems improve, Nakashook has a new strategy for planning his weekend hunting and fishing expeditions.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024