How to Use kingfish in a Sentence

kingfish

noun
  • Most of the top teams weighed four kingfish and four blackfin tunas.
    — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 May 2017
  • Try catching your own snapper, grouper, sea bass, kingfish, or cobia.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • His 35-pound kingfish catch was the heaviest fish caught in the tournament.
    — Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The book has chapters on sharks, tunas, dolphin, sailfish, kingfish, grouper, tarpon and snook.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Another angler hooked a kingfish off the Jupiter ledge that was in the 70-pound range but a shark cut it in half.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Visitors can charter boats and hire guides to take them out on the water in search of delicious kingfish, mahi-mahi and sailfish.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Is warming water attracting more southern species like kingfish to places like Cape Cod?
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Fish is both a staple and delicacy, the warm waters giving the island rich stocks of kingfish, lobster and red snapper.
    — Dominic Kocur, theweek, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Shugart's catch, the third to weigh in, proved untouchable, a mammoth kingfish at nearly 50 pounds that held up comfortably through the entire day.
    — Clayton Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
  • Farther out in the Gulf waters, offshore trophies such as tuna, kingfish, red snapper, and others prove bountiful game.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Farther out in the Gulf waters, offshore trophies such as tuna, kingfish, sailfish, and marlin prove bountiful game.
    — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
  • That means the bait stealers and nuisance species will become less prevalent and fishing for species like whiting, also known as Gulf kingfish, will become hot, Thornton said.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Brothers Gregory and Austin Jones are both registered to go after kingfish in the junior tournament, and were all smiles roaming around the grounds of the main rodeo on Friday.
    — Michael Dumas, al.com, 20 July 2019
  • Other dishes incorporate oysters grown in the Arabian Gulf, edible flowers sourced from a desert garden, Emirati kingfish, and native desert plants, to name a few.
    — Alicia Erickson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2021

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