How to Use fin in a Sentence

fin

1 of 2 noun
  • The fin helps to keep the brush close to the pool floor and sides.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • Their fins have white edges that vary in thickness, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Each toy has a hard plastic top fin with three grooves on one side.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 23 June 2023
  • The leviathan is dead; sharks circle and feast on its tail and fins.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The Chinese are crazy for shark fins.
    — Jonathan Miles, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The fans are much thinner and more closely packed with fins.
    — John Burek, PC Magazine, 3 June 2026
  • They can even be found on surfboard fins and truck mirrors.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Pelagic rays flap their fins in a smooth, bird-like motion.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Their fins and whisker-like barbels are translucent.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • He can be seen holding his hands up above his head to mimic a shark fin.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • And the whales—humpback, fin, and minke—never failed to wow us.
    — Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Five whales—blue, bowhead, fin, humpback, and minke—are thought to sing.
    — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Luckily, a fin comb can take care of this issue.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
  • His back fin breaks the surface after the fly has floated past.
    — Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
  • The fish are hand sculpted in white gold, with scales, fins, and whiskers all engraved by hand.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
  • All sockeye are considered adults but need not be fin-clipped.
    — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 13 July 2022
  • But it will be held down by a long fin below the surface that serves as a sea anchor.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Swap your shoes for fins and clothes for swim suits, then embark on an aquatic escapade.
    — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 28 Jan. 2026
  • In nature, this might be a pheromone trail, a bird’s warning call, or the flick of a fish’s fin.
    — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The fin on the fish’s back breaks the water first, then the delicate splay of its tail.
    — Maggie O’Farrell, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
  • While a white shark’s fin is triangular, a dusky shark’s fin slopes and curves.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
  • The species features three dark spots on the back and blue and orange on the dorsal and anal fins.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
  • At times, the whales even broke through the surface, poking their fins just above water.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Rays, in contrast, constantly move their fins, which changes the physics.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Spray the coils and fins with compressed air to remove any remaining dirt and dust.
    — Samantha Hunter, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023
  • This gives the board a ton of pop, while quad fins provide speed and stability.
    — Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • My diet contained a lot of golden-fin trout and ground squirrels.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2021
  • For the finishing touch, the roof spoiler and shark fin are now painted black.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And Ariel was just a normal teenage girl who just wanted to be out of the ocean and lose her fins.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • They are adapted for that location with fins that shade the windows.
    — Jeff Brady, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025

fin

2 of 2 verb
  • There were fins on stage, fins to the left and fins to the right.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • There were fins to the left, fins to the right and fins on the stage — Crow couldn’t resist joining in.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Then put on your mask and fins for a little snorkeling to see what kind of marine life seeks refuge in the shallows.
    — Outside Online, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Conservationists have long railed against the practice of finning sharks, and there are more bans in place now than ever.
    — Justin Klawans, theweek, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Investigators arrived on the scene to fin an adult human skull.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 26 Aug. 2020
  • As the sun rose into a cobalt sky and the mercury climbed to 75, sturgeon finned in the shallows just feet away from awed humans.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Only not fin at all because Daniel springs some follow-up questions on the vamps, beginning with softballs.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 June 2024
  • Dogfish, a smaller fish, are fished commercially for their meat and are less likely to be discarded after finning.
    — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
  • These rules were intended to decrease the animals’ suffering from finning and prevent them from being killed just for their fins.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • By the 1920s, humpbacks were scarce, so the industry began targeting blue whales and then fin and sei whales.
    — Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Often, despite finning laws, fishermen slice a fin from a still living shark and drop the creature back into the water, to bleed to a slow and painful death on the ocean floor.
    — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Three decades into his projet sans fin, Invader is more monomaniacal than ever.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The Falcon 9 first stage tucks its grid fins down during launch, minimizing atmospheric drag on the way up through Earth's atmosphere.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Even though efforts have been made internationally to reduce wasteful practices like finning and to set catch limits, global shark mortality remains high.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Add a claustrophobic mask, a straw-like snorkel, fins that can weigh you down, plus waves and strong currents, can lead to a casual activity quickly turning into a high-intensity workout.
    — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2025
  • This plan included a prohibition on shark finning -- the process of removing shark fins at sea and discarding the rest of the shark -- and grouping sharks into different complexes to simplify the management of dozens of species.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 June 2026
  • The cruel and wasteful practice of shark finning − cutting off fins and discarding the still-living animals back into the sea − pushes shark populations towards the brink of extinction and jeopardizes marine ecosystems.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Shark finning is the practice of removing a shark’s fins and dumping the rest of the body at sea, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
    — Don Sweeney april 29, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But regulations that directly target shark mortality—not finning alone—should be pursued to protect sharks as a whole, the study authors tell Live Science’s Melissa Hobson.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024

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