Sentence examples for bent fish from inspiring English sources

A classic bluefish blitz was soon under way, rods bent, fish flopping on the sand, an occasional angler frantically striving to remove a deeply embedded hook from a fish without getting part of a finger bitten off, all the while glancing over his shoulder at the action.

And a good thing too, say many Venezuelans, who think their legislature and their judiciary alike bent as fish-hooks.What worries foreign investors is Colonel Chavez's stated intention to review all contracts involving the sale of public-sector enterprises.

His energy bent my fishing rod and nearly snapped my line as he darted up and down the stream.

Do not try to bend the fish while it is still thawing, you could very easily break the fish.

A typical escape response consists of a unilateral muscle contraction bending the fish into a C-shape (stage 1), followed by a contralateral muscle contraction (stage 2).

My personal favorite is the Asian carp czar (who apparently couldn't bend the fish to his will after all).

In his later years, he was bent as a fish hook, and looked so old that strangers refused to believe he was only in his 90s.

In "Tomorrow," an emotionally powerful work, three dancers bent over the fish tanks, their heads and arms initially submerged in the water before rising up and plunging into space and into complicated relationships.

Each movement drew another set of eyes as people rested their bikes, licked their cones and murmured "Ah-h-h!" as the fish bent the fisherman's slender rod into an arc, which, like the gathering crowd, slowly tightened.

The velocity vectors around a C-start (a straight swimming fish bends into C-shape) maneuvering fish are also discussed in this paper.

He bent over and fished out a half-foot cucumber and a fat eggplant.