fish-eating
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Add to this the perception, used effectively by Ms. Banerjee five years ago, that the BJP was the party of landlocked Hindi-speaking North Indian vegetarians alien to the fish-eating Bengalis of the coast.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Some scientists thought these fish-eating creatures may have been fully aquatic, gliding through deep waters to snare prey.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
Often working as a team, these fish-eating orcas push porpoises with their snouts, hold them in their mouths, and carry them above the water.
From National Geographic • Oct. 30, 2023
For decades, fish-eating killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have been observed harassing and even killing porpoises without consuming them -- a perplexing behavior that has long intrigued scientists.
From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023
Most of them were fish-eating species — herons, pelicans, grebes, gulls.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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