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Fishes in a sentence

Here below you will find several sentences that illustrate how to use the word fishes in a sentence.


  1. Porbeagles are among the few fishes that exhibit apparent play behavior.


  2. It is often absent in fast-swimming fishes such as the tuna and mackerel.


  3. It is one of the most abundant fishes in the muddy areas of Port Philip Bay.


  4. Clupeiformes consists of 350 living species of herring and herring-like fishes.


  5. The goblin shark feeds mainly on teleost fishes such as rattails and dragonfishes.


  6. The cerebellum of cartilaginous and bony fishes is extraordinarily large and complex.


  7. In general, teleosts tend to be quicker and more flexible than more basal bony fishes.


  8. Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey, such as insects and small fishes.


  9. Other vertebrates include cladotherian mammals, a pipoid frog, and ceratodontiform fishes.


  10. The fishes are represented by the two species Melvius chauliodous and Myledalphus bipartitus.


  11. The washstand is red and gold; its tip-up basin of marble inlaid with fishes is silver and gold.


  12. The porbeagle is an active predator that predominantly ingests small to medium-sized bony fishes.


  13. Marine mammals and commercial fishes, including tuna and mahi-mahi, also inhabit the Sargassum mats.


  14. Unlike most fishes, American paddlefish hardly respond to overhead shadows or changes in illumination.


  15. Sunfish are generalist predators that consume largely small fishes, fish larvae, squid, and crustaceans.


  16. Tilapia also consume vegetation which would normally be used by young native fishes for cover and protection.


  17. The tadpoles also exude noxious substances which deter fishes from eating them but not the great crested newt.


  18. It fishes by sight and can swallow small fish while submerged, but larger specimens are brought to the surface.


  19. Ostariophysi, which includes most freshwater fishes, includes species that have developed some unique adaptations.


  20. The open waters are inhabited by fishes, molluscs and crustaceans living on sea grasses or who prey on each other.


  21. Teleost fishes have been frequent subjects in art, reflecting their economic importance, for at least 14,000 years.


  22. Tadpoles retain the lateral line system of their ancestral fishes, but this is lost in terrestrial adult amphibians.


  23. In ray-finned fishes (by far the largest group), the optic tectum has a layer—the marginal layer—that is cerebellum-like.


  24. Aside from humans, octopuses may be preyed on by fishes, seabirds, sea otters, pinnipeds, cetaceans, and other cephalopods.


  25. In the 1980s, biologist Ed Murdy named a genus of gobiid fishes of New Guinea Zappa, with a species named Zappa confluentus.


  26. Although usually smaller than the cerebrum, in some animals such as the mormyrid fishes it may be as large as or even larger.


  27. He discovered, described, and named more than 1,000 vertebrate species, including hundreds of fishes and dozens of dinosaurs.


  28. This species hunts for teleost fishes, cephalopods, and crustaceans both near the sea floor and in the middle of the water column.


  29. In the ocean, predators of the loggerhead juveniles include portunid crabs and various fishes, such as parrotfishes and moray eels.


  30. Wading in the water, he fishes the shallows; he lands a trout that «was mottled with clear, water-over-gravel color» that he releases.


  31. Clear, cold water released by dams has significantly changed characteristics of habitat for these and other Colorado River basin fishes.


  32. Numerous vertebrate groups are from this formation, including fishes, crurotarsans, ornithischians, saurischians, pterosaurs, and turtles.


  33. Other animals include gastropods, bivalves, bony fishes, chondrichthyes, lissamphibians, lizards, turtles, crocodilians, birds, and mammals.


  34. The porbeagle is an opportunistic hunter that preys mainly on bony fishes and cephalopods throughout the water column, including the bottom.


  35. It has a varied diet, consisting mainly of bony and cartilaginous fishes and also including crustaceans, molluscs, sea snakes, and cetaceans.


  36. It feeds mainly on bony fishes and cephalopods, and has been known to drive them into compacted schools before launching open-mouthed, slashing attacks.


  37. There are substantial fossil records of jawed fishes across the K–Pg boundary, which provide good evidence of extinction patterns of these classes of marine vertebrates.


  38. Unlike the planktivorous American paddlefish, Chinese paddlefish were strong swimmers, grew larger, and are opportunistic piscivores that feed on small fishes and crustaceans.


  39. Comprising 7,822 km, the geopark highlights the geological heritage of the area such as Cretaceous dinosaur tracks and bone bed and fossils of Triassic fishes and marine reptiles.


  40. Other vertebrates include crocodiles (such as Deinosuchus and Brachychampsa), turtles (such as Adocus and Basilemys), pterosaurs, lizards, snakes, amphibians, mammals, and fishes.


  41. Other vertebrates from the Weald Clay include crocodiles, pterosaurs, lizards (such as Dorsetisaurus), amphibians, sharks (such as Hybodus), and bony fishes (including Scheenstia).


  42. There is evidence North American fishes are unable to digest the tiny but hard shells of the mud snail, and that their presence may result in poor growth outcomes for rainbow trout.


  43. Fossils of Cretaceous plants such as ferns, redwoods, cycads, and ginkgo, and Triassic fishes and reptiles such as coelacanths, Weigeltisaurus, and ichthyosaurs have been recovered.


  44. Many of these introductions have resulted in environmental and ecological problems, as the introduced rainbow trout disrupt local ecosystems and outcompete or eat indigenous fishes.


  45. An apex predator, it feeds mainly on teleost fishes such as croakers, flatfishes, and cutlassfishes, and to a lesser extent on cartilaginous fishes, cephalopods, and decapod crustaceans.


  46. Baryonyx may have had semiaquatic habits, and coexisted with other theropod, ornithopod, and sauropod dinosaurs, as well as pterosaurs, crocodiles, turtles and fishes, in a fluvial environment.


  47. American paddlefish are closely related to sturgeons in the order Acipenseriformes, an order of basal ray-finned fishes that includes sturgeon and paddlefish, several species of which are now extinct.


  48. Siamosaurus lived in a semi-arid habitat of floodplains and meandering rivers, where it coexisted with other dinosaurs, as well as pterosaurs, fishes, turtles, crocodyliforms, and other aquatic animals.


  49. As with fish and turtles on a coral reef, hippos occasionally visit cleaning stations and signal, by opening their mouths wide, their readiness for being cleaned of parasites by certain species of fishes.


  50. It chases down pelagic fishes such as lancet fish, mackerel, pilchards, herring, and sauries, and forages near the bottom for groundfishes such as cod, hake, icefish, dories, sand lances, lumpsuckers, and flatfish.

General information about «fishes» example sentences

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If you enjoy being out on the water, you might like to try catching some fish. Or is that “fishes? Although both are proper ways to spell the plural form of fish, there are rules about how to use them as both a noun and a verb. 

The word fish can describe an animal species, but also represents an action. Both fish and fishes are appropriate to use in both noun and verb form, but they have some specific rules. Let’s look at what this means and how fish and fishes should be used. 

What is the Plural of Fish in English?

Fish can be a plural form and singular form and is used when referring to a single group or collection of a specific species of fish. Fishes is a more scientific use when referring to types of fish in a group or collection. You can also conjugate fish to fishes when used as a verb. 

When to Use Fish

When used as a noun, fish describes as singular fish or multiple fish. It is a common, well-recognized word and does not require the addition of an “s” to make it plural. 

Use fish to describe one fish, a school of fish, or a specific fish species. For example:

  • The fish in Lake Ignace were not biting over the weekend.
  • We saw three Manta-Ray fish during our glass bottom ocean cruise.
  • My fish, Bob, was all alone in the fishbowl before I bought him a snail. 

As a verb, use fish to describe the action of catching or trying to catch a fish. It conjugates as a regular verb. For example:

  • I love to go fishing with my father. 
  • Every chance I get, I fish with my group of friends from High School. 
  • I fished that pond every day after school for a year. 

When to Use Fishes

As a noun, fishes is a scientific term that describes more than one species of fish in a group. Fish can be used in its stead, but fishes helps you recognize there is more than one type of fish being referred to. For example:

  • The biologist was studying the diversity of the fishes in the isolated mountain lake. 
  • We saw 15 different types of fishes on our trip. 

As a verb, fishes is the simple present conjugation of the word. For example:

  • He fishes with a unique cast that allows the fly to hover just above the water’s surface.
  • She fishes with her children every chance she gets. 

How to Use Fish in a Sentence

These fish emit distress signals that are picked up on by the mulloway.  [Fishing World]

The fish are then sold as salted dry or canned. [Food Science, Sari Edelstein]

No fish were registered on Upriver Lakes, where the season has now closed after the 90 percent harvest cap was reached on Sunday. [Fon du Lac Reporter]

How to Use Fishes in a Sentence

Those most in jeopardy were the smaller fishes with specialized eating and sheltering habits. [U.S. News & World Report]

Swim with the fishes at Factory Obscura’s latest art installation. [News 9]

Let’s Review

Fish and fishes are correct spellings and serve as a noun in both singular and plural forms or as a verb. Fish is an acceptable use to describe a single fish or any group of fish. Fishes is used to describe multiple species of fish collectively and is more scientific. 

As a verb, fish describes the action of fishing, and fishes is the simple present tense of the word. 

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He passes a small pond, where an old man, ENOCH, fishes


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He fishes in his pocket, finds his card, lays it on the table


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Underfoot, bits of rock crumbled and splashed into the water, sinking past fishes in the swaying seaweed to the greenness down beyond


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Jim fishes one of the sachets out his pocket and hands it Bex


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How will you be paying?» Dave fishes his wallet out of his jeans and selects a credit card


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Alex leans over and fishes the notebooks out of the glove compartment


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He was charmed and amazed by the wonder of everything he saw, and mostly by the gorgeous palace, through which he was taken, by attendant fishes, to the sick chamber of the king, where he found a great council of learned doctors, who welcomed him very warmly


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N: The attendant explained this to the council of fishes and they listened


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N: The council of the fishes were amazed at the rabbit’s courtesy to their King and slunk away with shame at their own rude conduct in kidnapping him, when a simple request would have been enough


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The high price paid by the Romans, in the time of their greatest grandeur, for rare birds and fishes, may in this manner easily be accounted for

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He digs under his pillow and fishes out a dollar


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He locks the car then fishes for his key as he approaches the front door


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When Vidius Pollio, in the presence of Augustus, ordered one of his slaves, who had committed a slight fault, to be cut into pieces and thrown into his fish-pond, in order to feed his fishes, the emperor commanded him, with indignation, to emancipate immediately, not only that slave, but all the others that belonged to him


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1Cor 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds


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and in the fire of my anger have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; 20 So that the fishes of


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“Provided I’m not sleeping with the fishes


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consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked,


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the waters were gathered that it should bring out living creatures, fowls and fishes, and so it came to pass


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foundations of it; the sea rises up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it are troubled, and the fishes of it also, before the Lord,


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8 On the fifth day I commanded the sea, that it should bring out fishes, and feathered birds of many varieties, and all animals creeping over the Earth, going out over the Earth on four legs, and soaring in the air, male sex and female, and every soul breathing the spirit of life

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The constellations began to show their stories: Perseus saving Andromeda from Cepheus; Aphrodite and Eros transforming themselves into fishes to create Pisces


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42 And this is the stick with which all the works of our God were performed, after he had created Heaven and Earth, and all the host of them, seas, rivers and all their fishes


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49 And Pharaoh said to them, Tell me now his power and his might; and they said to him, He created the Heaven and the Earth, the seas and all their fishes, he formed the light, created the darkness, caused rain on the Earth and watered it, and made the herbage and grass to sprout, he created man and beast and the animals of the forest, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and by his mouth they live and die


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2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the air, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered


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18 And the fishes that are in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall hate to drink of the water of the river


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upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered


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Throughout His ministry on earth His following varied in size, of the thousands fed with five loaves and two fishes only one hundred and twenty were left in the upper room on the day of Pentecost, but they were enough


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8 On the fifth day I commanded the sea that it should bring out fishes and feathered birds of many varieties and all animals creeping over the Earth going out over the Earth on four legs and soaring in the air male sex and female and every soul breathing the spirit of life


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42 And this is the stick with which all the works of our God were performed after he had created Heaven and Earth and all the host of them seas rivers and all their fishes


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49 And Pharaoh said to them Tell me now his power and his might; and they said to him He created the Heaven and the Earth the seas and all their fishes he formed the light created the darkness caused rain on the Earth and watered it and made the herbage and grass to sprout he created man and beast and the animals of the forest the birds of the air and the fish of the sea and by his mouth they live and die

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47 on the fifth day you said to the seventh part where the waters were gathered that it should bring out living creatures fowls and fishes and so it came to pass


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3 A sword is sent on you and who may turn it back? 4 A fire is sent among you and who may quench it? 5 Plagues are sent to you and what is he who may drive them away? 6 May any man drive away a hungry lion in the wood? Or may any one quench the fire in stubble when it has begun to burn? 7 May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer? 8 The mighty Lord sends the plagues and who is he who can drive them away? 9 A fire shall go out from his anger and who is he who may quench it? 10 He shall throw lightnings and who shall not fear? he shall thunder and who shall not be afraid? 11 The Lord shall threaten and who shall not be utterly beaten to powder at his presence? 12 The Earth quakes and the foundations of it; the sea rises up with waves from the deep and the waves of it are troubled and the fishes of it also before the Lord and before the glory of his power; 13 For strong is his right hand who bends the bow his arrows that he shoots are sharp and shall not miss when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world


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And when the multitude gathered to him to hear the word of God while he was standing on the shore of the sea of Gennesaret he saw two boats standing beside the sea while the two fishers which were gone out of them were washing their nets; And one of them belonged to Simon Cephas; And Jesus went up and sat down in it and commanded that they should move away a little from the land into 52 the water; And he sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat; And when he had left off his speaking he said to Simon Put out into the deep and throw your net for a draught; And Simon answered and said to him My Master we toiled all night and caught nothing; now at your word I will throw the net; And when they did this there were enclosed a great many fishes; and their net was on the point of breaking; And they beckoned to their comrades that were in the other boat to come and help them; And when they came they filled both boats so that they were on the point of sinking


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1 But when Simon Cephas saw this he fell before the feet of Jesus and said to him My Lord I beg of you to depart from me for I am a sinful man; 2 and amazement took possession of him and of all who were with him 3 because of the draught of the fishes which they had taken; and so also were James and John the sons of Zebedee overtaken who were Simon’s partners; And Jesus said to Simon 4 Fear not; from now on you shall be a fisher of men to life; and they brought the boats to the land; and they left everything and followed him


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One of his disciples said to him namely Andrew the brother of Simon Cephas Here is a lad having five loaves of barley and two fishes: but this amount what is it for all thesee But will you that we go and buy for all the people what may be eatene for we have no more than these five loaves and the two fishes; And the grass was plentiful in that place


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Jesus said to them Arrange all the people that they may sit down on the grass fifty people in a company; And the disciples did so; And all the people sat down by companies by hundreds and fifties; Then Jesus said to them Bring in here those five loaves and the two fishes; And when they brought him that Jesus took the bread and the fish and looked to Heaven and blessed and divided and gave to his disciples to set before them; and the disciples set for the multitudes the bread and the fish; and they ate all of them and were satisfied; And when they were satisfied he said to his disciples Gather the fragments that remain over that noth- ing be lost; And they gathered and filled twelve baskets with fragments being those who remained over from those which ate of the five barley loaves and the two fishes; And those people who ate were five thousand besides the women and children


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His disciples said to him How have we in the desert bread with which to satisfy all this multitude? Jesus said to them How 8 many loaves have you? They said to him Seven and a few small fishes; And he 9 commanded the multitudes to sit down on the ground; and he took those seven loaves and the fish and blessed and brake and gave to his disciples to set before them; and the disciples set before the multitudes; And they all ate and were satisfied and they took that which remained over of the fragments seven basketfuls; And the people that ate were four thousand men besides the women and children; And when the multitudes departed he went up into the boat and came to the borders of Magada


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Simon Cephas therefore went up and dragged the net to the land full of great fish a hundred and fifty three fishes and with all this weight that net was not rent; And Jesus said to them Come and sit down; And no man of the disciples dared to ask him who he was for they knew that it was our Lord; But he did not appear to them in his own


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two fishes divided He among them all


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to bats, birds and fishes) with syn-

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The big fat fish was big and fat because he had eaten all the fishes, even baby fishes


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Millions of fishes also washed up on


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tons of fishes, mostly in the US


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They contemplate the fishes,


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I CO NJ U RE and confirm upon you, ye strong and holy angels, by the names Cados, Cados, Cados, Eschercie, Escherei, Eschercie, Hatim, Ya, strong founder of the worlds; Cantine, Jaym, Janic, Anic, Calbot, Sabbac, Berisay, Alnaym; and by the name Adonai, who created fishes and creeping things in the waters, and birds upon the face of the earth, flying towards heaven, in the fifth day; and by the names of the angels serving in the sixth host before Pastor, a holy angel, and a great and powerful prince and by the name of his star, which is Jupiter, and by the name of his seal, and by the name of Adonai, the great God, Creator of all things, and by the name of all the stars, and by their power and virtue, and by all the names aforesaid, I conjure thee, Sachiel, a great Angel, who art chief ruler of Thursday, that for me thou labour, &c


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his 5 loaves and 2 fishes


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All the boy had was only 5 loaves and 2 fishes


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» Simon and all who were concerned in this episode were amazed at the draught of fishes


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3 But this was in no sense a miraculous draught of fishes


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Jesus turned suddenly to Andrew and said, «Bring me the loaves and fishes

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Jesus in like manner broke and distributed the fishes


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It is not strange, then, that you who have been thus taught should long for the loaves and the fishes


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In those days there were current many stories about finding treasures in the mouths of fishes; such tales of near miracles were commonplace


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His brethren came up close behind him, having come ashore in the small boat, hauling the net of fishes after them


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―Boy, you clean dem fishes rat now you hear


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Doan want no spoiled up fishes you can bet on it!‖ Russell Foucharde‘s voice roiled across the shallow water to the weed lined shore like a swarm of hornets


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Jelly fishes have the longest life span on earth


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You saw in your mind’s eye the little fishes and the fresh baked bread


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architecture but without any of the fishes


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fishes? Had they all died and slowly decomposed as a result? Or

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He took a glance behind him—and saw Lezura right on his tail with the towel drape around her and one of the big fishes in her hand


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Amaranta could not reconcile her image of the brother who had spent his adolescence making little gold fishes with that of the mythical warrior who had placed a distance of ten feet between himself and the rest of humanity


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When Colonel Aureliano Buendía opened up his workshop again, seduced at last by the peaceful charms of old age, Aureliano Segundo thought that it would be good business to devote himself to the manufacture of little gold fishes


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“Our business is selling little fishes


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With her terrible practical sense she could not understand the colonel’s business as he exchanged little fishes for gold coins and then converted the coins into little fishes, and so on, with the result that he had to work all the harder with the more he sold in order to satisfy an exasperating vicious circle


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He ordered them to leave him in peace, insisting that he was not a hero of the nation as they said but an artisan without memories whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes


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He abandoned the manufacture of little fishes, ate with great difficulty, and wandered all through the house as if walking in his sleep, dragging his blanket and chewing on his quiet rage


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After the armistice of Neerlandia, while Colonel Aureliano Buendía took refuge with his little gold fishes, he kept in touch with the rebel officers who had been faithful to him until the defeat


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He did not receive any visits except that of the barber every three weeks, He fed on anything that Úrsula brought him once a day, and even though he kept on making little gold fishes with the same passion as before, he stopped selling them when he found out that people were buying them not as pieces of jewelry but as historic relics


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He did not think about her again or about any of the others after he went into the workshop with the steaming cup, and he lighted the lamp in order to count the little gold fishes, which he kept in a tin pail

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Since he had decided not to sell any, he kept on making two fishes a day and when he finished twenty-five he would melt them down and start all over again


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It was then that she understood the vicious circle of Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s little gold fishes


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“Oho,” the officer said, turned on the lights, and ordered such a minute search that they did not miss the eighteen little gold fishes that had not been melted down and that were hidden behind the bottles Is their tin can


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Watching him putting in latches and repairing clocks, Fernanda wondered whether or not he too might be falling into the vice of building so that he could take apart like Colonel Aureliano Buendía and his little gold fishes, Amaranta and her shroud and her buttons, José Arca-dio and the parchments, and Úrsula and her memories


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Since she could not read, she memo-rized what he had said and got some money by selling one of the seventeen little gold fishes left in the work-shop, the whereabouts of which, after being hidden the night the soldiers searched the house, was known only by her and Aureliano


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Aureliano gave her fourteen little gold fishes because she was determined to leave with only what she had: one peso and twenty-five cents


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They could hear Úrsula fighting against the laws of creation to maintain the line, and José Arcadio Buendía searching for the mythical truth of the great inventions, and Fernanda praying, and Colonel Aureliano Buendía stupefying himself with the deception of war and the little gold fishes, and Aureliano Segundo dying of solitude in the turmoil of his debauches, and then they learned that dominant obsessions can prevail against death and they were happy again with the certainty that they would go on loving each other in their shape as apparitions long after other species of future animals would steal from the insects the paradise of misery that the insects were finally stealing from man


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as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that


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to draw it for the multitude of fishes


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dragging the net with fishes

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And makest man as the fishes of the sea, as the


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For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that


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And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the


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a suggestion of fishes and ships


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pay his taxes and asking for a coin from the fishes mouth,


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fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee


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She made her own bed and I imagine she is sleeping with the fishes


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Climbs, fishes, very clever


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Are you the guy that fishes all the time?”


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Where the fishes swim,

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He never forgot to tell me about his favorite dishes, like fresh lake fishes, salt lake fishes and dry fishes


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There were many ponds and lakes in the village, which were ever teeming with different varieties of fishes


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My clients were not small fishes of any ponds and lakes, but they were big fishes of vast seas and oceans


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Each weaving was like a mental net that he cast out into the world hoping to catch some of us little fishes


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“See if the fishes like sourpuss more than sausage


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While Victor continued telling his funny puns, I was cursing Samurai’s flea Mashka that jumps so far, and the mice that live in the shed and run so fast, and those Siamese battle fishes that have lightning reactions and a piranha’s manners, in other words, all those living creatures that dwell in Sensei’s house


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“This type of fish is the most delicious of all the fishes


The most common plural form of fish is indeed fish. However, under certain circumstances, you can use fishes as the plural form of fish. Fish can refer to multiple fish, especially when they are all the same species of fish. Fishes, however, usually refers to multiple species of fish, especially in scientific contexts.

Why do we not say fishes?

For some nouns, like fish, there is no difference between the singular form and the plural form. Sometimes, however, people do use regular plural endings for irregular nouns, so in casual conversation you may hear fishes or elks. Some English words come from Latin, and take a Latinate plural ending.

What is the plural of the word fish?

a Fish or Fishes plural : pisces sense 1 also : pisces sense 2a. b : torpedo sense 1b The submarine’s fish hit the freighter. fish out of water.

How do you use fishes in a sentence?

Fishes sentence example He’s got all the loaves and fishes he needs. The constellation and sign of the zodiac known as “the fishes ” is treated under Pisces. Often the bones, teeth and scales of fishes are to FIG.

Why fish has no plural?

Plural of fish is fish, only if the fish you are talking about are of same species. Whereas, fishes is used when we are talking about different species of fishes. If you caught 4 fish that means the number of ‘fish’ you caught is four and they are of same species. These are 4 fish not 4 fishes.

Is school of fish plural or singular?

The collective term for fish is a school, or shoal. You would correctly refer to a school of fish – not “fishes”. However, I found this use of “fishes” as a plural in a scientific textbook from 1968.

What is octopus plural?

Octopuses is the next plural, which gives the word an English ending to match its adoption as an English word. Lastly, octopodes stems from the belief that because octopus is originally Greek, it should have a Greek ending.

What are fish called?

Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups.Fish. Fish Temporal range: Middle Cambrian – Recent Subphylum: Vertebrata Groups included.

Do fishes sleep?

While fish do not sleep in the same way that land mammals sleep, most fish do rest. Research shows that fish may reduce their activity and metabolism while remaining alert to danger. Some fish float in place, some wedge themselves into a secure spot in the mud or coral, and some even locate a suitable nest.

What is fish slang?

Fish, appearing especially in the phrase fresh fish, is prison slang for new, first-time inmates, usually considered naive and vulnerable. Fish, often appearing in the form of fishy or the phrase serving fish, is also slang in drag culture for a very feminine drag queen.

Is it 2 fish or 2 fishes?

Scientists use “fishes” to describe different species of fish in a group or in a location, and “fishes” shows up in some common sayings listed below. The noun “fish” has two different, completely acceptable plurals—”fish” and “fishes”—but “fish” is by far the most common plural.

Can you say fruits?

Grammatically, do you say Fruit or Fruits? The word Fruit is a noun. So the plural of Fruit can be either Fruit OR Fruits. When we think of Fruit as a group collectively and in a non-specific way, then we tend to use the word Fruit (without S).

Which pronoun is used for fish?

Table: Subject Object Possessive pronoun fish fish fishes.

How do you count fish in English?

A: Fish can be a singular count noun, and its usual plural is also fish. Fruit as a singular count noun has the plural of fruits.

How do you make fish plural possessive?

Whether the plural is fish or fishes , is concluded by the sense of the context. When the plural form of “fish” is “fish,” the possessive plural is “fish’s” as the word has an ending other than the letter ‘s’. If the plural form is “fishes”, the possessive plural is “fishes’” as the ending letter is ‘s’.

Is fish a countable noun?

Fish is both countable and uncountable depending on whether you mean the animal – I see three fish – or the food – I eat lots of fish. This is not the only noun like this, so be careful!.

Is Deers a word?

Deers is an accepted plural, but it is rarely used. The word deer comes from the Old English word, deor, which means four-legged animal, beast. Also the Dutch word, dier and the German word, tier. Deer is one of a set of words with irregular plural forms, such as sheep and fish.

How do you spell schools of fish?

When fish, shrimp or other aquatic creatures swim together in a loose cluster, this is typically called a shoal. It can be a mix of different species. A school is a group of the same fish species swimming together in synchrony; turning, twisting and forming sweeping, glinting shapes in the water.

What is Goose plural?

noun. ˈgüs plural geese ˈgēs .

What is Platypus plural?

However, given that “platypodes” has for some unfathomable reason never become popular, the dictionary goes on to say that the accepted plural is “platypuses” or (particularly in scientific and conservation contexts) “platypus”.

Do you say shrimp or shrimps?

‘Shrimp’ has two plurals. You can either say or write ‘shrimp’ or ‘shrimps. ‘ However, ‘shrimps’ is usually used in reference to different species or.

What class is a fish?

Superclass Agnatha contains only two Classes of animals, both of which come under the general term of fish.Higher Classification of the Phylum Chordata. Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Superclass Gnathostomata Class Chondrichthyes Common Name Sharks and Rays etc. (Fish).

What are 3 types of fish?

Fishes are typically divided into three groups: superclass Agnatha (jawless fishes), class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes), and superclass Osteichthyes (bony fishes).

Is an octopus a fish?

Yes, a mollusk — like your common garden snail. To be more specific, an octopus belongs to a unique class of mollusks known as cephalopods. To put it in simpler terms, this why an octopus has no bones — no skeleton — it is an invertebrate. A fish has a backbone and a skeleton — it is a vertebrate.

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Sentence Examples

APRIL fishes Danced by Erna Caris

I’m telling you, but for the strength and guts in me, we’d be scoffed by the fishes this minute.

I know right where she fishes.

Fisher’s Fritze fishes fresh fish.

I grabbed some new fishes‘ clothes and bunked them in Thompson’s office.

You know, I study fishes for those who are interested in the life of the fish.

So big tough fisherman is gonna throw him back to the fishes, huh?

Everybody comes here and fishes last… because it’s the biggest and best bank, huh?

He’ll dream you into the Hudson, where all you’ll do is poison the fishes

In the sea are fishes as big as the great temple… and little ones as tiny as my little finger, with wings.

The blight is in Davey Jones’ locker and feeding the fishes he is, deader than a blinking mackerel.

AND THIS IS ME- PISCES, 2 LITTLE fishes.

Ye Gods and little fishes.

fishes number five and six are beginning to nibble.

You see, I like having my share of the loaves and fishes.

What about your share of the loaves and fishes?

Four miserable fishes cost me 120 yen.

When the Reverend Penniman sermonised on the loaves and fishes, they were right before you.

You’re a treasure hunter who sets out to sea and fishes for sunken planets.

How neatly spreads his claws. And welcomes little fishes in with gently smiling jaws.

The river had its own lifeÔÇö fishes and porpoise, turtles and birds… and people who were born and lived and died on it.

I wonder what the other fishes are thinking.

They make lady slippers out of fishes.

The poor will be hungry, and there are no loaves or fishes here to feed them.

His beautiful palace stands in the bottomless depths where goldÔÇôfinned fishes and ocean monsters dwell.

I’ll bring you goldÔÇôfinned fishes.

There’re no goldÔÇôfinned fishes in the Ilmen!

He used to feed his slaves to the fishes.

There was old man Nemo Fed his crew on worms and fishes Eels for breakfast

What fine fishes! We were really lucky.

Only now all the fishes in the lagoon are dead.

# He fishes for a girl # # Until she’s landed him #

Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks… 10,000 men that fishes gnawed upon… wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl… inestimable stones, unvalued jewels… all scattered at the bottom of the sea.

We burned fishes on the Volga. They burn better than firewood.

Is it your desire that the fishes, they swim away?

Then, I’d be up on deck taking a sun bath and getting 75 percent, while you went below and played footsies with the fishes.

Mrs. Page and all the girls crouch down under the sun lamps pretending to be lady fishes depositing their eggs in the sand.

Neither Tatsuhei, nor Kesakichi, not one man in the village, fishes as well as I do.

Cutie pie, if you don’t give back the dough, you’ll sleep with the fishes.

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