fishbowl
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It felt like she was looking through a fishbowl, she could see straight ahead but not to her right or down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
It’s made her feel both proud and anxious, she said — and a bit like being in a fishbowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025
We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2024
"The fishbowl -- not the fish -- needs to change."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024
He’d had a button and a pennant collection, a thousand pennies in a large mason jar, a fishbowl, and a model tin lizzie hung from a strand of wire in one corner.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
They're found in fishbowls on hostess stands in New Jersey diners, Chicago rib joints and the Ahwahnee Hotel's restaurant in Yosemite — all places that emit a kind of old-school cool.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2023
As a youth, Antheil practiced the piano up to 20 hours per day, soaking his hands afterward in fishbowls of cold water to ease the swelling.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2011
Check off the punch list of items in this manifest: 1. a world governed by a race of wise elders, perched on high columns and with their desiccated faces in fishbowls; cf.
From Time ● Jun. 16, 2011
It is about the worlds we dream inside our fishbowls, helped by the weird reflections on the walls.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2011
The water in the fishbowls rippled and waved as the fish gazed calmly; their brilliant colors against the abundant green land glinted like gold and jade.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
