How to Use catfish in a Sentence

catfish

1 of 2 noun
  • Fried catfish or cod on the menu?
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
  • No dirty fish — no shrimp, no catfish, no tilapia.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • For Lent, look for fried catfish and cod served with two sides.
    — Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The lake is stocked with bass, crappie and catfish.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2026
  • At other times of the year, the lakes are stocked with catfish.
    — Heather McRea, Oc Register, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Liver is the best catfish bait.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Fried catfish — not on the current menu — was some of the city’s best.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Liver is the best catfish bait.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • If catfish is not available, use any firm white fish such as cod, tilapia, or grouper.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
  • Most catfish have several thick black bars on their backs and tails.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Outside the structure, a path leads to a catfish pond.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Burkhart hooked the catfish using a skipjack as bait, the post said.
    — Mitchell Willetts The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Shreveport was more oil and catfish than filé gumbo.
    — Philip Martin, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2026
  • There’s no denying that catfish noodling is an absurd sport.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Catfish are biting all types of catfish bait.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • White catfish are easily caught on live bait.
    — Ken Perrotte, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Last year, researchers at Auburn mapped the genome of the blue catfish for the first time.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Anglers will find bluegill, catfish, bass, and perch, among others.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Still, many people get shots at them while chasing other species like catfish and bass.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • Trust me, this city has amazing southern food, like chicken and fried catfish.
    — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The conclusion of the work would be a fish fry — a feast of hush puppies made from those catfish.
    — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Harry the catfish popped to the surface first, his fishy breath curling the grass along the bank.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Carp, maybe, or catfish, bottom-feeders the ice has brought to the surface.
    — Stuart Dybek, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Monique Brown said the catfish will be breaded and seasoned with their own unique recipe.
    — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Even though they’re called white catfish, the upper bodies can be silvery blue to bluish black.
    — Ken Perrotte, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • But then again, there are many species of sunfish, catfish, suckers and trout that can up the totals.
    — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Baked in the oven on a sheet pan, these catfish tacos are an easy hands-off way to get dinner on the table in flash.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
  • The best dating site options on our list still see scammers and catfish every now and then.
    — Dallas News, 12 July 2022
  • Anglers will find carp, catfish, and bass, among other catches.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Bullheads are in the same family as catfish.
    — Ken Perrotte, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026

catfish

2 of 2 verb
  • Sierra then teams up with the popular girl in order to catfish her crush.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Netflix To catfish or not to catfish — that is the question.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Basically, Shunsuke is hoping to catfish his way out of this hole.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Players are given the choice to either play the game as themselves or catfish the other players with a fake identity.
    — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 14 Apr. 2021
  • One conspirator used a teenage girl’s Facebook account to catfish him, and he was lured to the forest and killed.
    — Sydney Barragan, Daily News, 6 June 2026
  • It is best known as one of the region’s top fishing lakes, where warm temperatures have converted stocks to catfish for summer.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Blue, channel, and white cats are the only United States catfish species that have distinctly forked tails.
    — Ken Perrotte, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Everything from flat featherback to catfish to red snapper to king mackerel are displayed on ice behind the counter.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Allen contended that the man was trying to catfish him by pretending to be multiple attractive women.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 29 June 2026
  • This format allowed the competitors to catfish one another, with many of them attempting to win the game by posing as someone other than themselves.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • In the dramedy, which marked her film debut, Sulewski plays a waitress, Becca, whose image is used by a dad to catfish his son on a dating app.
    — Grace Smith, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In the dramedy, which marked her film debut, Sulewski plays a waitress, Becca, whose image is used by a dad to catfish his son on a dating app.
    — Grace Smith, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Social scientists understand many of the reasons why perpetrators catfish.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
  • While such a parental impulse is natural, the dad’s solution is to catfish his son who naturally falls in love with an imaginary girl (Claudia Sulewski).
    — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Claudio Lichtenthal, who had divorced Morosini’s mother, and is a ski instructor in Colorado, had his reasons to catfish his son.
    — Bob Morris, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Over the course of a year, Malley masqueraded as his ex-wife, Cathryn, in order to catfish his own father, a married former priest living in rural Pennsylvania.
    — Sean Malin, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Lyn remembers hovering in the kitchen as a child, watching her grandmother and mother make roux, a sauce base of flour and fat that's fundamental to so many Louisiana dishes, from jambalaya to catfish coubion to turtle stew.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
  • But being on the other side, learning of the experiences of those who come to the show for assistance and hearing why people catfish, has also allowed Crawford to be compassionate, especially in pandemic times.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 11 May 2021
  • In reality, Nick’s lonely coworker, Dawn (Becca Lish), used his likeness and details from his life to catfish a string of women on the internet in a desperate attempt to feel loved and seen.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2021
  • According to the nanny, Banfield feared his wife would file for divorce and set up a phony account on a fetish dating website under his wife’s name to catfish and lure Ryan, 39, to the house for a consensual but violent role-play scenario.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Lathem’s attorneys, by contrast, have told jurors that Warren acted alone, stabbing Cornell in a jealous frenzy after trying to catfish the more prosperous Lathem into a relationship.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2021

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