Example sentences for: eel

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

  • The town has a picturesque working harbor, where small, brightly painted fishing boats bob, and larger vessels haul in daily catches of lobster, eel, and mackerel.

  • The Atlantic provided a gourmet diet of oysters, clams, and lobster, and the rivers teemed with salmon, eel, smelt, and sturgeon.

  • The tried and true formula for an 800 word review is to meander on the general topic for three paragraphs, summarize the book in four more, note a flaw in the penultimate paragraph, and close with an upbeat summation on the order of "Still, Moon Over Nova Scotia is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the shifting fortunes of the Atlantic eel fishing industry."

  • The fish are fascinating (look for the huge moray eel, which is not for the squeamish), but the zoo exhibits are also fun.

  • That is about as easy to embrace as a wet eel, about as useful as a punctured balloon.


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