How to Use marlin in a Sentence

marlin

noun
  • Bochy welcomed Brown by directing him to a hard-plastic replica of a marlin.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Other species living in the open sea are more specialized and attach to cetaceans, swordfish, or marlins.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The Atlantic longbill spearfish—a rare relative of sailfish and marlin—is part of the line up as well.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Giant fish swim by and check him out—dusky sharks, hammerheads, marlins, silky sharks and swordfish, which have whacked at least one of his fellow divers.
    — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But the crew did not win the tournament, nor did team members receive any monetary reward, despite the blue marlin's size.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 20 June 2023
  • The exhibit features tools used in sailmaking, such as palms, fids, commanders, awls, and marlin spikes.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026
  • The menu also features an abundance of seafood tacos such as shrimp, marlin, garlic octopus and spicy octopus.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • No marlin were caught in the tournament, which was Saturday and Sunday.
    — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 July 2017
  • Inside Hangar 3, murals of each squadron’s mascot — a marlin, a black cat, a phoenix, and more — were proudly painted on walls.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 8 June 2024
  • The city is renowned for its sport fishing and is home to many species, including marlin, snapper, dolphinfish, yellowfin tuna and more.
    — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
  • This reel is capable of subduing tuna, sharks, sailfish, marlin, and other blue-water species.
    — Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
  • One side would go up into the Cyclops Mountains to search for an echidna while the other party would go to the ocean to find a marlin.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Thousands of yellowtail and barracuda were landed, as well as an occasional bluefin and once … a marlin.
    — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Kiko’s also dishes out a variety of other seafood tacos, including octopus, shrimp, smoked marlin and mahi mahi.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • Deep-sea fishing charters also prove popular, with mahi mahi and colossal marlin thriving off the coast of Huahine island.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Seafood is important in all coastal kitchens in the country, with shellfish, marlin, tuna, and octopus taking center stage.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Right now, 90 percent of the world's large fish, such as tuna, swordfish, and marlin, have disappeared thanks to overfishing.
    — Frances Beinecke, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2012
  • Brave the wait, and you’ll be greeted by the scent of simmering garlic, Giants decor, and taxidermied marlin leaping off the walls.
    — Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Here, the world’s top blue-water hunters, Melani among them, dive for prized pelagics, such as tuna, marlin, wahoo, and other deep-water predators.
    — Logan Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2017
  • But that is not the case, as the largest animals are not the fastest, and the fastest animals (cheetahs, marlins, falcons) are of intermediate size.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • There are plentiful big tuna in the lagoon right off shore, while a bit further out are blue and black marlin (the largest species) wahoo, sailfish, mahi mahi and giant trevally.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The Sensation has theorized this marlin’s wounds may have fallen into those categories.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 21 June 2023
  • Farther out in the Gulf waters, offshore trophies such as tuna, kingfish, sailfish, and marlin prove bountiful game.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
  • Farther out in the Gulf waters, offshore trophies such as tuna, kingfish, sailfish, and marlin prove bountiful game.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
  • One tradition holds that conflicts will be resolved by sending one party into the forest to search for the animal and the other party to the ocean in search of a marlin.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Overfishing has depleted 90 percent of large fish, such as tuna, swordfish, marlin, cod, halibut, skates, and flounder.
    — National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2016
  • It’s now served by Conrad’s successor, Marlin Hunter — who, true story, was named for the giant marlin his father caught on this very beach.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
  • During the 1970s, the rod would have been top of the line, and anglers of that era frequently used similar rods for huge sharks, marlin, and giant bluefin tuna.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Completing the list of characters are a marlin (a large type of fish, now extinct), some sharks (now mostly extinct or in private collections), and several extinct birds.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Because hammerheads live so close to land, this feat is also much more attainable than, say, catching a 1,000-pound marlin, which requires a big boat and mountains of gear.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023

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