big fish
Example Sentences
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"A few years ago, I used to catch big fish like captains and catfish but because of the pollution, they've moved further out to sea," fisherman Gilby Mwana-Fioti told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
She was a big fish in a small and comfortable pond.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
“There’s a lot of big fish on the lake,” said Paul Muche, scion of a family considered sturgeon-spearing royalty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Yet for 101 minutes, the big fish and the minnows were even.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
There were a lot of pretty big fish, too—sturgeon, they called it.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
