Example Sentences

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"You really are fishing needles out of haystacks."

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

“People are fishing for that hidden gem that targets something so conserved that the virus cannot mutate away from it,” says Jean-Philippe Julien, an immunologist at the University of Toronto.

From Science Magazine • May 23, 2023

The only industries are fishing and farming, and they largely go into hibernation as the days grow short and snow piles up to roof eaves.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2023

Yes, there is fishing Like you’d expect from any farming sim game, yes, there are fishing spots.

From The Verge • Aug. 25, 2022

End of two weeks all two hundred traps are fishing and I’m pulling twenty-five a day by hand.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick