gudgeon
Example Sentences
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The EA and Thames Water are investigating after dead European eels, sticklebacks, gudgeon and stone loach were discovered in the River Pool.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are not bigger than a gudgeon, and you know how to swim, it is easy for you.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
In the brook the jack do not seem to care much about them; but in the lake above there are no gudgeon, and there a gudgeon is a fatal bait.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
Every morning the boy from the Weirs arrived with freshly caught gudgeon, and now and then an eel or trout, which the scouts on the staircase had learnt to fry delicately in oil.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
