Sentence examples for fishing about from inspiring English sources

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".

It looks like they are fishing about in a swamp of slimy undercooked sausages: I suspect a medical student would glean rather more.

He'd listen for a moment, ask a question or two, then realize that we were talking not about the sea but about swimming or deep-sea fishing, about beaches or sunbathing.

And though today's take on Reichl's recipe makes use of some cookware, it shares with it the advantage of being a kind of fondue that doesn't necessitate fishing about for chunks of bread in a pool of molten cheese.

Cameron said it would be ambitious to get the deal with the EU agreed within two years given that it took Greenland – the economy of which is largely based around a single industry, fishing – about three years to leave.

I began fly-fishing about 70 years ago, and as I went from boyhood to old age in New England, I came to regard certain species of fish as unworthy of pursuit, among them carp, suckers and dace.

I agree with Stanley Fish about that.

With all the fish about, Wales unsurprisingly attracts piscivorous predators.

1. Slash the skin side of the fish about 1/4-inch deep, at 1-inch intervals.

You can figure on a largish fish (about a pound) or two smaller ones per person.