Example sentences for: eels

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

  • The pool in the Wektu Telu temple is the home of big plump eels, overfed on offerings of boiled eggs which are conveniently sold by vendors at the gate.

  • Hustling, bustling peasants hawk the rich harvest of the surrounding farming country: cabbages and oranges, eggs and live chickens (they are weighed while flapping), river fish and squirming eels, and table after table of the most fragrant spices, while stalls and hole-in-the-wall cafés heat up the city’s number-one dish, the Sichuan hotpot.

  • A few families still fish for eels, and process them in small “factories” along the quayside.

  • When tractors haul the fishing fleet ashore, sunbathers jump from their towels to gape at the catch — 1-meter (3-foot) eels, still flapping; foot-long, spiny lobsters still snapping; and bucketloads of flat and silver fish.

  • The holes provide an environment for turtles, eels, and a variety of tropical fish.


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