Example sentences for: shoals

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

  • You’ll see sea urchins, shoals of fish, and even small octopuses that make their homes in rocky crevices just off shore.

  • Bonito, amberjack, barracuda, and shark can be caught in these waters all year; huge sailfish, tuna, and several species of marlin are most common between March and June; and in the winter months shoals of grouper and jewfish abound.

  • The Brooklyn Museum debate seems to me to be the epitome of the kind of issue on the shoals of which the contemporary Conservative Party always founders.

  • Halifax’s strategic position on the Atlantic soon proved even more invaluable as a base for “farming” the rich shoals of cod and herring on the ocean’s Scotian Shelf.

  • Scrappy crews of small hand-painted boats troll the waters just offshore, and trawlers fish deep in the Atlantic for big shoals of bacalhau (cod) so beloved by the Portuguese.


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