Example sentences for: angling

How can you use “angling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Freshwater angling — for bass, carp, or trout — is good anywhere in the lakes and streams, best of all up in Hokkaido, where you stand a decent chance of hooking a salmon.

  • Fishing: Sea angling is permitted year rou nd, but river fishing requires a license.

  • Perhaps the most questionable piece of networking is one that Fowler testified he couldn't recall, but which documents revealed for the first time yesterday strongly confirm: namely, contacting the CIA at the behest of Roger Tamraz, an international financier "with a questionable reputation" (says the Times ) who was angling for Clinton administration support for a proposed Caspian region oil pipeline, and who had given the Democrats $300,000.

  • Moderate Republicans such as New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, angling for advantage within the GOP, touted the Bush brothers as evidence that the party should spread "a broader tent."

  • In a sense, all European governments are angling to shift the blame for financial reality onto someone else via the euro.


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