marlins
- plural of marlin.
Example Sentences
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As they examined the video footage they'd captured via drone, they noticed something unexpected: the stripes on individual marlins got obviously brighter as a fish moved in for an attack.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2024
Huge marlins were a bit disconcerting, Harrison admits, since the team had heard the fish had a proclivity for trying to poke holes in boats with their spearlike bills.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
The sailors have enjoyed seeing dolphins, turtles and marlins and, for three weeks, they did not see another boat.
From BBC ● May 1, 2021
Foster, who chose teaching so that he could fish in the summers and carry on his father’s business on Hatteras, remains under the spell of marlins.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2020
Fish gathered to look at us—a school of barracudas, some curious marlins.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
