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Example sentences for: fished

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Dole rarely fished for sympathy when he retold the tale of his battle injury, leavening the reference by saying it won him a "bedpan promotion" to captain.
Rising earlier than usual this morning, I have fished out a small nugget about the previously mentioned (by you, let the record show) Puff Daddy, or Puffy for short.
Since larger fish are the most susceptible to fishing, the population's age structure can shift as individuals, particularly females, are fished out.
The people farmed and fished; on the dawning of the Bronze Age in 2700 b.c. , they began to work with metals.
“We know next to nothing about noncommercially fished species,” notes Jeff Hutchings, a conservation biologist at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada).