How to Use fishbowl in a Sentence

fishbowl

noun
  • Being a politician these days means living in a fishbowl—every part of your life is open to public view.
  • If the eye is like a fishbowl, it's made of shards used for self-defense.
    — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
  • Serve it in a fishbowl for an eye-catching display.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
  • As for that fishbowl that Jin gives Will as a present in episode six?
    — Zing Tsjeng, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Living in a fishbowl yields its share of challenges, of course.
    — Shinan Govani, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2016
  • Athletes rarely got the chance to speak their minds from inside the fishbowl.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • But a trip isn't all sugary frozen drinks and oversize fishbowls here.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 July 2023
  • Of course, the fishbowl also has a big upside.
    — Elizabeth Hartfield, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • And in this case, the job in question features the sport’s largest fishbowl.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
  • There, on a little cartoony hexagon of green, sat what looked like a fishbowl or snow globe.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The bathroom, with its see-through walls and ceiling, feels like a bona-fide fishbowl.
    — Nikki Ekstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • And this gentleman has told me this office is like a fishbowl.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Create a list of fun topics, number them, and place them in a fishbowl.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Riding a Zoox is like riding in a fishbowl.
    — Rakesh Agrawal, PC Magazine, 28 June 2026
  • There were five fishbowls, fruit baskets and a roll of paper towels on the counter.
    — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The best was a clean car with a fishbowl windshield—someone who had money but was stupid.
    — Jared Lemus, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The gilded fishbowl of his particular fame is a place many would drown.
    — Chloe Walker, Longreads, 1 July 2022
  • One of those lunches was with me, at Michael’s restaurant, a fishbowl in those days for the literati.
    — Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Some drink and join, but to others the fishbowl of religion will always be small and alien.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The cards were folded, sealed in small opaque canisters and placed into a fishbowl.
    — Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The funnest part was leading up to it, looking in that fishbowl, taking him out, and jamming it in there.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 July 2020
  • Owning your own pet fish takes more than just putting it in a fishbowl, feeding it once or twice a day, and calling it quits.
    — Tim Kohut, BGR, 23 June 2021
  • Two clean samples in a row earn two draws from the fishbowl, three in a row earn three draws, and so on, up to a maximum of eight.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Hearst emerged, and, without a break, greeted me and led me into his personal fishbowl.
    — Alan Deutschman, WIRED, 1 June 1995
  • Among them lay Sami’s shattered fishbowl and Sami, dead among the shards of glass.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • Then, the nurses got in the fishbowl while the doctors listened quietly.
    — Molly Peck, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Because even those living in a fishbowl of twinkling lights need a little privacy once in a while.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • There are over-the-top burgers, shakes and fishbowl-size drinks garnished with sugary, gummy candy.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2022
  • His interview subject could be a piano-loving mage with a fishbowl head who commands a mega-yacht with a cat crew.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • There were quite a few slightly disheveled looking folks walking around holding these crazy red or blue drinks that came in what looked like a small fishbowl.
    — Tom Reardon, azcentral, 4 Aug. 2019

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