Sentence examples for familiar fish from inspiring English sources

Even familiar fish often have unfamiliar names, though some of those names are making their way onto mainland menus.

Farmed kangaroo, antelope or ostrich might be on hand with more familiar fish, duck and pork selections.

Visit grander premises for lunch or dinner and you'll find a parade of more elaborate preparations of mahi-mahi, ahi tuna and less familiar fish, like moi, opah, opakapaka and onaga.

The deluxe sashimi platter was more than ample, with 19 slices of fish -- four each of tuna, salmon, yellowtail and mackerel and three of fluke, but my guest, a sashimi devotee, observed that such platters usually have more variety, with a piece or two of sea urchin, octopus and some other less standard item added to the more familiar fish.

Three steps to saving the species Tell the average person about the illicit eel trade, and the response is often "but why eel?" The assumption is that this seemingly bland, familiar fish can't possibly warrant such desire and demand that it sparks a blackmarket trade.

We recorded shoal size, rates of movement and association preferences for familiar fish.

"The Newlyweds," Nell Freudenberger's affecting if sometimes ungainly new novel, starts off as a sort of high-concept Hollywood movie, mashing up the familiar fish-out-of-water story line with a girl-torn-between-two-boys plot.

Here the shapes range wide and far: a jagged pattern of sharp points, like the collar on a ferocious dog; inverted onion domes; bell and leaf shapes; and the more familiar fish-scale design.

I am familiar with fish cakes, but does anybody make fish sausages?

A poem describing a kind of tetra, the familiar aquarium fish, reads in its entirety: "You can see straight thru / an X-ray fish to its heart.

So it is disheartening to see him offering an economic plan in the familiar Republican fish wrap of tax cuts, tax breaks and tax eliminations.