Sentence examples for fished for a while from inspiring English sources

Donny and Mr. Cheetam fished for a while but quit after Donny's hook got caught in the trees too many times.

My friend climbed in first, and when he had fished downriver for a while I waded in behind.

A group of men hiked to the lowest pump station, where they fished for salamanders while waiting for India to go to bed.

If you could manage to sell it off, it also meant that you didn't have to go fishing for a while.

Sometimes I would cut a reed and tie a line that I carried around in my watch pocket to the whip end of the reed and bait the hook with a worm or a grub or a mayfly or a June bug or a grasshopper and fish for a while.

We're just fishing for excuses while paralysed in a sea of mixed-metaphor anxiety because we have that ancient fear that wherever we are, next door someone will be having a better time than us, what with their loud music, glass clinking, cheery chat, midnight countdown and all….

I'd work on tugboats and fishing boats for a while, and then I'd take my baidarka and explore.

The supermarket sector has been aware of conditions on some Thai fishing vessels for a while, thanks to reports from the UN and non-governmental organisations.

In preparation for The Battlers (1941), about migrant workers, Tennant traveled for months with the unemployed along the roads of Australia, and several years later she lived in a fishing village for a while and worked as a boat builder before publishing Lost Haven (1946), a story of wartime shipbuilders.

In what became known as "Lobstergate," a number of officers faced harassment after calling out colleagues who were caught fishing for lobsters while on the clock.

I've sailed with friends and fished for striped bass, and for a while I owned a small motor boat.