Sentence examples for fishes about from inspiring English sources

Other loaches include the stone (Nemachilus barbatula) and spined loaches, both mottled, yellow and brown fishes about 13 centimetres long found in Europe and northern Asia.

Sarah Vowell starts her willfully cutesy-pie book "Unfamiliar Fishes," about the Americanization of Hawaii and America's imperial ambitions, by asking this question about the takeout meal she has bought as a tourist in Waikiki: "Why is there a glop of macaroni salad next to the Japanese chicken in my plate lunch?" This is typical of Ms. Vowell's relentlessly casual, David Sedaris-chatty style.

It has been known that the first backboned land animals the ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, including ourselves evolved from a group of fishes about 370 million years ago during the Devonian period.

The first land-dwelling vertebrate animals are thought to have evolved from lobe-finned fishes about 400 million years ago.

Molecular data suggest colonization of Mesoamerica by primary freshwater fishes about 4 7 Mya [ 8, 12, 13, 22].

Not content with fishing about using bits of string, Roach reveals he went a step further.

Woman 1 (turning from her food to her handbag and fishing about in it) "I take every kind of medication".

This is the largest family of marine fishes with about 200 genera and 1,500 species.

If it's adventures with big fish, how about Pinocchio?

You should see little fish flopping about!

I agree with Stanley Fish about that.