How to Use chub in a Sentence

chub

noun
  • The chub lives and dies with Lake Powell’s rise and fall.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Customers with the chubs can toss them or return them to the place of purchse for full refund.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The stakes for humpback chub and other native fishes are high.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • His chub nose, full black cheeks that match his belly, long braids, wide eyes — finally in front of me.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The only part of my body that chub had in fact chosen not to occupy, were my two twin beds.
    — Iman Hariri-Kia, Teen Vogue, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The ship's crew pulled in loads of whitefish, perch and oily chubs, which were popular for smoking.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Not much is known about the chub's preference for habitat or even its behavior.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2024
  • The chub evolved to handle both cold and warm temperatures, but needed the warm months to grow and spawn.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Smallmouth bass feast on humpback chub in the river's upper section.
    — Brittany Peterson and John Flesher, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • The majority of fish killed were minnows, shiners, chubs, and dace.
    — Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Beyond the bait-shop fathead lies a whole world of minnows, including shiners, dace and chub.
    — Chad Mason, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026
  • Now, biologists realized, neither the canyon nor its chub were safe.
    — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
  • This proposal comes within months of a similar bid to downlist the humpback chub.
    — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The chub's story shows how probing natural systems on a small scale can lead to workable solutions.
    — Judy Fahys, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2020
  • The Green River’s humpback chub and Colorado pikeminnow made the roster.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • Good choices include live sunfish, suckers, bullheads, carp, goldfish, and chubs.
    — Keith Sutton, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
  • The chub is resilient — but hasn't evolved to withstand the sudden introduction of predatory sport fish.
    — CBS News, 15 June 2022
  • Blue runners, mangrove snappers, grunts, needlefish and Bermuda chub were all biting.
    — Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Just four years after the dam’s completion, the government listed the chub as an endangered species.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The lake's prey fish work has been done annually since 1973 to monitor species such as alewife, smelt and bloater chub.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2020
  • That warming, brought on by decades of climate change and regional aridification, has been a blessing to the chub so far.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Scuds and other invertebrates scurry into the current along with maybe a chub or stoneroller or other small fish that live in the rocky matrix.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The team also caught a dozen bluegill sunfish, seven largemouth bass, a single creek chub and four hybrid green and pumpkinseed sunfish.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
  • If a certain area containing Sonora chub shows signs of excessive grazing, the cows would be removed.
    — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
  • One of the key elements will be the reintroduction of native fish, such as roundtail chub, longfin dace and Gila trout.
    — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
  • This crystal-clear waterway is home to multiple species of fish, including rainbow trout and the (adorable) arroyo chub.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Some Tui chubs are being seen in the shallows at times, which is the main source of forage for these trout and just in time for the post spawn bite when the fish put on the feed bag.
    — sacbee, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Shallower water is warmer and flows through the creek even more slowly, leaving the Gila chub, an endangered fish, with nowhere to go.
    — Joe Duhownik, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • His restaurant uses 10-pound chubs about 18 inches long, cuts them into quarters and scores them, corkscrew-fashion.
    — Judy Walker, NOLA.com, 18 July 2017
  • The humpback chub helps illustrate Vigil's point that water is living, that the river basin is more than a plumbing system.
    — Judy Fahys, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2020

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