How to Use puffer fish in a Sentence

puffer fish

noun
  • Similarly, if a friend didn’t invite you to a group hang or hasn’t answered one of your texts, a puffer fish might feel the urge to give them a taste of their own medicine.
    — Cassie Hurwitz, SELF, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The Chinese take-out eatery included a dining area themed to look like a Tiki lounge with bamboo, oars, totems and puffer fish lamps.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Why somebody acts like a puffer fish One key indicator for puffer-fishing could be attachment style, Newman says.
    — Cassie Hurwitz, SELF, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The fish – a member of the puffer fish family – will be frozen and incinerated at local government facilities, Schinas said.
    — ABC News, 26 June 2026
  • The shipment included surgeonfish, puffer fish, lionfish, butterflyfish, octopuses, crabs, and starfish, all commonly sought for home aquariums and exotic collections.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
  • Sarasota Bay Explorers’ Sea Life Encounter Cruise helps kids get up close and personal with puffer fish, stone crabs, and other local marine life that’s temporarily brought onboard with a trawl net for observation and education.
    — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Its newest opening, the 187-room Risonare Shimonoseki, debuted in December on the busy harborfront of Shimonoseki, a food lovers’ destination an hour from Fukuoka and famous for fugu, the notoriously poisonous puffer fish.
    — Adam H. Graham, Time, 12 Mar. 2026

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