fish
noun
any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
fished
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past participleof fish.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof fish.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
fishnounany of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
Example Sentences
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There’s a predictable resistance of In my day we fished with a wooden stick and a bottle cap and caught fish the size of Buicks, etc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Jacobs fished out the long mink her grandmother left her years ago and took it to a Manhattan furrier to give it a second act.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
He moved to Las Cuevas, where he fished and worked in construction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Although cargo containers will still need to be fished out of the water, said Port of Long Beach Chief Executive Mario Cordero, “the Port of Long Beach is fully operating.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
I fished just long enough to catch three bass, about half an hour.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
