How to Use billfish in a Sentence

billfish

noun
  • Use a lip gaff in the front lower jaw, or a snooter for billfishes.
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 21 May 2018
  • The main event is blue marlin but there are other billfish, mahi mahi, wahoo and especially big tuna.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Rods up to 15-weight are used for sharks, billfish, and similar exotic jumbos.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The fish’s gut cavity was packed with ice before it was wrapped in an insulated billfish bag, which was filled with ice for the long trip back to the dock.
    — David Rainer Alabama Department Of Conservation and Natural Resources, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • These hostile zones also likely afford refuge for Humboldt squid from many of their own predators, such as tuna, billfish and sharks, Field points out.
    — Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2010
  • Witness the largest billfish tournament in the world with live music, beach tennis, food and drinks, corn hole tournament and a livestream of the fishing tournament weigh-ins.
    — Hailey Closson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Sabin actually caught and released 10 billfish during her 11-month trek, including a shortbill spearfish and roundscale spearfish.
    — Gary Garth, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Fishing tournaments have to obtain federal permits to target highly migratory fish species including sharks, tunas and billfish, Jenkins said.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 20 June 2017
  • PSATs have been used in multiple studies of billfish and tunas, species that are notoriously difficult to study with conventional methods.
    — Popular Science, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The council has jurisdiction over the waters where 140 long-line vessels based in Hawaii — as well as a handful in American Samoa — fish mostly for tuna and billfish.
    — Christopher Pala, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Prince, a billfish expert who has since retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was stumped.
    — National Geographic, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The champagne bottles were popping Tuesday at the dock in Morehead City, North Carolina, where a crew of fishermen brought in the biggest billfish ever weighed at the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2026

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