Sentence examples for a sort of fish from inspiring English sources

The sauce here is a sort of fish ragù common throughout Sicily and Southern Italy.

At another ryokan, dish after dish is delivered by an ­admirably patient mama-san (hostess), who tries very hard to explain what it is we are being fed: a stuffed lobster, meltingly good sashimi, a sort of fish stew with some unidentified potato substance – the list goes on.

"It just seems to me that what we're exploring here is a sort of fishing expedition," she said.

Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic.com on the Web, dismissed the claims of mediums as "twaddle," comparing their techniques to a sort of fishing expedition.

From here, it plays as a sort of fish-out-of-water-in-the-snow story; from there, as a tale of social integration and distrust in a country that until relatively recently was racially and culturally homogenous, and also of an unruly force abroad in a land long on regulations.

And then there's the most divisive delicacy on the Seder table: gefilte fish, a sort of damp fish patty, simultaneously spongy and flaky.

"It's a sort of smoked fish," I said.

The fact that Hibbett is a sort of big fish in a bunch of small ponds gives it the status of a Buffett-type company.

Instead of reinforcing the claustrophobia that builds both their passion and their hatred, he gives us a jokey set that is a sort of enormous, circular fish tank, with fish painted on the walls and a fishbowl onstage to over-egg the pudding.

Presented by Ben Fogle and "legendary" fishing expert Matt Hayes, it's a sort of reality TV fish-off.

Its protagonist, Professor EÉtienne Alexis (played by the long-faced Paul Meurisse), is a biologist in the south of France who's famous for his promotion of artificial insemination as a way to improve the species and to free up sex to become "a sort of sport, like fishing or hunting," pursued for pleasure, not for nourishment.