Example Sentences

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Guests, for instance, will fish for robot bits from an assembly line.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2019

If you try to flush an ice cube down the toilet again tonight, I will fish it out.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2014

"The best places will be the plunking bars and many will fish with pinkish spin-n-glos, and mini pink squids with a chunk of dyed shrimp or a hunk of dyed shrimp by itself."

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2012

Tomorrow morning we will fish the lake and see if we have arrived too late.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2011

“I do not care. I caught two yesterday. But we will fish together now for I still have much to learn.”

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway