Example Sentences

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“Seeing some of the faces on the field, the Anthony Rendons, the Mike Trouts, puts a huge smile on my face.”

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022

The indexer even manages to return fire for the attack on Bromley’s interest in Carp with an entry imputing a similar banality to Addison: “The Lake of Mount Ceunis is well stocked with Trouts, 445.”

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2022

You maintain a farm system to find Mike Trouts.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018

It seems, though, as if the Old Trouts are better at coming up with scenarios than knowing where to take them.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2014

Look you, Scholer, I have yet another: and now having caught 106 three brace of Trouts, I will tel you a short Tale as we walk towards our Breakfast.

From The Complete Angler 1653 by Walton, Izaak