Sentence examples for fish for something from inspiring English sources

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In the 1990's, they say, many heeded requests to fish for something besides dwindling groundfish.

It is involuntary memory that leads Pearl, while dancing with a man who hums along with the tune, to fish for "something that was gone the instant I felt it," and that turns out to be the memory of young Holland, back in Kentucky, "humming in my ear as he lay beside me on the bed".

Twenty-five yeago ago, when the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF) was formed, we found that an effective way of preventing overfishing on the open seas was to compensate the commercial fishermen and persuade them to fish for something else.

And not to trade off our fish for something else, to tell some foreign boat or some foreign country to come in and catch our fish, while our own people is starving.

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She pauses, fishing for something more.

"They were fishing for something.

They were fishing for something to motivate themselves.

Yvonne fished for something in her tight jeans pocket, thrust it out closed in her fist.

I should have thrown him at least two fastballs, then get him fishing for something".

As children, we rolled our eyes or covered our ears during car pool while the mothers fished for something suitable on the dial.

"Nobody fished for something else besides cod because they were altruistic to the fish," said Bill Amaru, a fisherman and a former member of the Fishery Management Council.

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