How to Use minnow in a Sentence

minnow

noun
  • Fish with minnows or jigs around brush near the main channel.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Try for crappie with jigs or minnows.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Try minnows or jigs for crappie.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Use minnows or jigs for crappie.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Then darkness like a minnow net.
    — Roey Leonardi, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Some liken it to forcing a minnow to swallow a whale.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 9 June 2026
  • Both of them love to play with the leftover minnows in the bait bucket.
    — Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Crappie fair with a lot of short fish being caught on jigs and minnows.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Try for crappie with minnows or jigs five to 15 feet deep.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But also bad news for lake trout, which relied on the minnows as prey.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 July 2019
  • Blue herons fed in the shallows; minnows darted around my feet.
    — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Crappie fishing is fair with minnows or jigs around brush.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The dead fish have mostly been small suckers, minnows, darters and sculpin.
    — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The group stage would be a series of blowouts, the sharks would devour the minnows.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
  • White bass - fair lake wide on jigs and minnows; all other species – slow or no report.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But sometimes, the big fish should stay in the small pond to defend the minnows from the sharks.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Two teenagers looking for minnows to use as bait found Rose’s body face down in a creek.
    — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But most bait users stick to tried-and-true oldies — minnows and worms, crawdads and crickets.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Anglers should drop live minnows down to within a foot or two of bottom to get them.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Predators will be drawn to the minnows in the glass traps and strike baits offered beside.
    — C.j. Chivers, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2016
  • The lines were baited with spawn sacs, shiner minnows or large fatheads.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2018
  • This owes much to thumping home wins against the division’s minnows.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • Emerald shiner minnows are a top bait for bass and perch, but very hard to find at local bait shops.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • When panfish, such as crappie and perch, are on the feed, meaty minnows and shad are the target.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Use marabou jigs, jigs tipped with one- to two-inch minnows and spoons for combing these deeper areas.
    — John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • Crappie are found in Whiskey Slough with small to medium minnows.
    — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 30 May 2017
  • The minnow bite has fallen off in favor of leeches and 'crawlers on sliding-sinker rigs.
    — Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • The fetid water smells like rotten eggs and has brought with it tadpoles, minnows and algae.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2019
  • With the sharks of large states lunging at one another across the world, can the minnows do more than hide in the reefs?
    — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • There are worlds and life cycles beneath the surface — minnows and flies and fish and turtles.
    — Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018

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