How to Use gar in a Sentence

gar

noun
  • Weston's fish is also a contender for the record for the largest gar caught with a 6-pound test line.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Nick and his friends eventually released the gar back into the river.
    — Jewel Wicker, Teen Vogue, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Like Phoebodus, the alligator gar has long jaws and a flat skull, which limit its bite force.
    — Tim Vernimmen, National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Just a short drive from Fort Wayne, this park has multiple glacial kettle lakes filled with largemouth bass, gar, and bluegill.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The Trinity River is still the best place to catch the biggest gar, although they are found in other lakes and rivers across the state.
    — Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Bluegill, mullet, gar and minnows are some of the spring’s underwater inhabitants.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Kirkland's advice for landing a record breaking alligator gar?
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Tabasco’s freshwater gar, an ancient, primitive fish with a face like an alligator’s.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2012
  • So-called because of its toothy mouth and broad snout, the alligator gar is a fish that bears a remarkable resemblance to four-legged alligators.
    — Georeen Tanner, Fox News, 8 June 2017
  • Alligator gar are among the largest freshwater fish in North America.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • This is bad news for the species that eat crayfish — a long list that includes most wading birds and small mammals, along with alligators, turtles, bass, gar, and other gamefish.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Contestants were buried alive, shocked with electricity, left to escape a box of alligator gars, had to jump between moving semi-trucks.
    — Scott Huver, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Residents reported waves of dead fish, including large, hearty species such as catfish and gar washing up in droves and creating an almost unbearable smell.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al.com, 14 June 2019
  • Visitors can find fish like gar and bluegill, several varieties of birds, turtles, alligators and even non-native rhesus monkeys that still live around the spring.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 22 July 2019
  • The Texas agency has plenty of information on the alligator gar on its official website.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 18 June 2018
  • Texas currently imposes no length restrictions on alligator gar.
    — Shannon Tompkins, ExpressNews.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Such was the case in January when a small group of excited spear-fishers slaughtered 82 gar on the Minnesota River.
    — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • So in a river full of alligator gar, for example, or a lake full of flathead catfish, their ability to escape predation is lower than that of a regular-finned common carp.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
  • The requirement applies to alligator gar taken in public freshwater or saltwater.
    — Shannon Tompkins, ExpressNews.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The tyrannosaur remains were found near each other, but the larger dig site also holds half a dozen 3-foot-plus turtle shells, along with remnants of giant fish called gars, parts of a 20-foot crocodile and other bones.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2019
  • The team narrowed down the DNA responsible for the cloaca and showed that there were equivalent regions in mice, as well as fish that are more closely related to limbed vertebrates, like the gar.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Now, the alligator gar, which the fishermen released back into the reservoir, is being reviewed by IGFA for two potential records.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The Oklahoma Aquarium is the biggest in the state at 72,000 square feet, and features sharks, jellyfish, alligator gars, as well as beavers and otters.
    — Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 15 Jan. 2026
  • For giant alligator gar to keep swimming in North American waters, anglers need to help conserve them, according to Weston and Kirkland.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Long before any of these modern invasives, people went to great lengths in the 1930s to get rid of native alligator gar with a custom boat called the Electric Gar Destroyer that would zap the fish with high voltage.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Conway’s 10-plus-pound gar was certified as a new Oklahoma record Tuesday, beating out the previous record by more than three pounds, according to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Ethan Macmillan, a 20-year-old emergency dispatcher from Toronto won a $200,000 prize after successfully jumping between speeding semi-trucks having navigated a water tank with alligator gar.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026

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