Sentence examples for fishes for compliments from inspiring English sources

Princess (of Long Island) fishes for compliments.

So he fishes for compliments in the shark-infested waters of a family gathering.

The novel sometimes makes up for dramatic shortcomings by squeezing yet another puff of rhetoric from its adult protagonist, who fishes for compliments ("Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent") and has a way of making forbearance itself insufferable.

In one of those transparent fishing-for-compliments-moments, I replied: "Me too".

She's fat -- and not even in the politically incorrect, fishing-for-compliments way.

We fish for compliments, subtly or openly.

(h) "I'd Rather Be Fishing for Compliments!"   12.

We just win," were not exactly fishing for compliments.

(h) "I'd Rather Be Fishing for Compliments!" (a) High school.

Sometimes I say to people, "Oh, I am old!" but I am just fishing for compliments.

On television, it might have come across as someone desperately fishing for compliments.