How to Use flying fish in a Sentence

flying fish

noun
  • Now and then, a flying fish bursts up from below, whizzing low across the water.
    — Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2022
  • On the right, six flying fish flash by like oversize dragonflies.
    — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
  • While caviar comes from sturgeon, Tobiko roe comes from flying fish and is served with sushi.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Hike, mountain bike, fly fish, horseback ride, or just take a chairlift up the mountain for some scenic selfies.
    — The Editors, Seventeen, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Guides take people out on the water and do everything from teach people how to fly fish to correct bad habits.
    — Hayley Harding, courant.com, 18 June 2018
  • Are birds ingesting plastic with their flying fish, and is that affecting them?
    — Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Puffins, flying fish, and dolphins are naturals in both the air and sea, moving from one to the other with ease.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Unmarked floating chests containing two cases were scattered in a bay full of flying fish.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
  • One day, a buddy asked him to teach a friend to fly fish at El Capitan Reservoir.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
  • Mitchell’s talk will cover local waters, locations and the best time of the year, day and tide to fly fish for these saltwater species.
    — courant.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The seafood linguine with flying fish roe is a winner, as is the sea bass fillet with gnocchi, eggplant, and cashew, in lemon butter and cilantro.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • The Spengler gang angling for a ghostly flying fish in New York City.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Anglers decamp here in May and June to dry-fly fish for brook trout and landlocked salmon in September.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 26 July 2017
  • The women encountered other obstacles on the water, such as being hit by flying fish.
    — Fox News, 30 July 2022
  • Meantime, anglers on Alabama’s TVA lakes should keep their eyes open for flying fish.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The menu runs for pages — everything from fatty tuna rolls to poached octopus to kamikaze rolls of eel, cucumber, shrimp, flying fish roe, spicy mayo, and sweet soy sauce.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • There was a dark, heavy stream close in to the Morro—sometimes there would be acres of bait—and there were flying fish going out from under the bows and birds working all the time.
    — Ernest Hemingway, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • Dishes such as roti, oxtails, saltfish, coco rice and flying fish with cou-cou transcend nationalities.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Crunch and spice Tobiko, or flying fish roe, are those crunchy, bright-orange fish eggs pressed into the outside of California rolls.
    — Alejandra Borunda, Bon Appetit, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Pike Place Market, famous for fresh flowers, flying fish and farm fare, served as the perfect backdrop for that education.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2018
  • Australian Kareena Lee, who finished in third place and earned a bronze medal, had another element to contend with -- flying fish.
    — Rebecca Saunders, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Was getting a bit carried away with watching my progress on the GPS tonight and was rudely interrupted when a flying fish hit me, er, in the bum!
    — D.j Hopson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2010
  • Besides serving as prey for larger fish, including sharks, flying fish are primary prey for 95 percent of Hawaiian seabirds.
    — Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • These small businesses depend on tourism from travelers who come to fly fish, attend the rodeo, or visit Yellowstone, especially in the summer months.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020
  • Today, tourists rent motor scooters to cruise along the bumpy island road, stopping for snaps at rocky overlooks and beaches lined with boats for catching flying fish – and the flowers that give Orchid its name.
    — Ralph Jennings, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2021
  • Stay in a villa or over-water bungalow at Cayo Espanto, an island about 3 miles off the coast of Belize, and fly fish, scuba dive or just hang out.
    — Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
  • Exhibits include a Bone Hall (with giant sea turtle and flying fish skeletons) and a Hall of Human Origins.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2026
  • All sorts of colorful characters swim by—a juvenile jack wedged between the tentacles and bell of a jellyfish for protection, a flying fish harboring a pygmy squid beneath its wing.
    — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Nonnative species such as common dolphins, which are normally seen in Mexico, as well as booby seabirds and flying fish, were spotted in California.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The scientist told me repeatedly of escaping to the ship’s deck and surrounding himself with the openness of the ocean, the beauty of volcanic islands, the whales, the dolphins, the flying fish, and, above all, the seabirds.
    — Akash Kapur, New Yorker, 12 May 2026

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