How to Use hake in a Sentence

hake

noun
  • Some had as many as a half-dozen tiny, shiny hake hanging from their sharp beaks.
    — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
  • Stocks of red grouper, shortfin mako and red hake were added to the overfished list.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • Stocks of red grouper, shortfin mako, and red hake were added to the overfished list.
    — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
  • Get the hake and chips and sit on a bench overlooking the water.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2021
  • For the best results for this fish sandwich recipe, use hake, pollock, or cod.
    — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 28 May 2018
  • Here hake is served simply with borlotti beans and romesco sauce (€27).
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • Some varieties, including flounder, hake and tilapia, don't have a strong fish odor.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2023
  • Another mild fish — hake, flounder or sea bass — will keep the gentle spirit of the recipe intact.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • When cod is unavailable, substitute haddock, hake, cusk, tilapia, pollock, striped bass, or white sea bass.
    — Julia Dowling Rutland, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • For centuries, hearty folk have trekked up these slopes from the breakwater after a day of fishing mullet, anchovies, hake, and eel.
    — John Oseid, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Or go more upscale at a seafood specialist like Fishworks for its atmosphere and the hake or even halibut.
    — Susanne Fowler, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Humboldt are often found in and around hake schools and have a very similar sound signature as the fish, Field explains.
    — Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2010
  • And as the fish have declined, so have their predators, including squid, blue crabs, bottlenose dolphins, oysters, red snapper and southern hake.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Indeed, Kress says two of the puffin’s favorite foods, herring and white hake, have been shown to be sensitive to changes in surface sea temperature.
    — Robert F. Bukaty, National Geographic, 19 Feb. 2016
  • The tiny menu generally offers just two options per course, with ceviche, scallops, and hake as common options alongside a wine list by local producers.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country, 23 July 2019
  • There was a wider availability of fish suitable for baby seabirds to eat, like haddock, various kinds of of hake, and in some regions, Atlantic herring.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Harvests of the Argentine hake, traditionally the largest fish catch in Uruguay, have plummeted.
    — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • This is largely because of bird-scaring lines – ropes decked with colorful streamers that fly behind boats and serve as a sort of sailing scarecrow – which are now required on all hake fishing vessels.
    — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Early on a recent Tuesday morning, about 50 merchants gathered around gray and red cartons containing species like turbot, hake and plaice and called out bids.
    — WSJ, 27 June 2018
  • Not only that, the gobies' hearts are undamaged by a lack of oxygen and exposure to poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas—unlike other local fish, such as hake.
    — David Biello, Scientific American, 15 July 2010
  • But warming waters have pushed hake, winter flounder, scup, and lobster fisheries north of our state, jeopardizing these important pillars of the economy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Fresh tomatoes go into simple fish stews with Atlantic hake (part of the codfish family, but less well-known than cod) and skillets full of vegetables with corn kernels and plenty of herbs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Other species removed from the overfishing list included stocks of sailfish, winter flounder and blue king crab, while other additions included stocks of greater amberjack, red grouper and red hake.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • American Dynasty, a commercial trawler, departed Seattle one day in May to fish for hake off the Washington coast.
    — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The aquatic mammals can live for up to approximately 26 years, often surviving off of small schooling fish, like walleye pollock, herring, hake and anchovy, as well as squid.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Other species removed from the overfishing list included stocks of sailfish, winter flounder, and blue king crab, while other additions included stocks of greater amberjack, red grouper, and red hake.
    — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
  • Namibia’s fishermen perceive seals as competing for such commercially valuable species as mackerel, sardines, anchovies, hake, and herring.
    — National Geographic, 21 Sep. 2016
  • Instead, Currie’s nets caught mostly gurnards, Cape horse mackerel, spiny dogfish, and shallow-water hake, and white sea catfish, which together made up 85 percent of Currie’s catch, compared with a historical three percent.
    — Petro Kotzé, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020

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