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[gahr] / gɑr /


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Wading in a crystal clear Florida river, Mr Szabo photographed a female longnose gar alongside several males during the mating season.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2025

The lubricating proteins were abundant in the fish’s jaws and in the fins of zebra fish, gar, and sticklebacks, the scientists reported.

From Science Magazine Apr. 25, 2024

We grab our soap and wade out into the river’s side channel for a wash-up and dip before breakfast, hoping a gar doesn’t rub up against our legs with its jagged teeth and prehistoric scales.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 2, 2023

The gar can grow up to 10 feet and prefers sluggish bodies of water such as the artificial lake in Ruzhou, he said.

From Washington Post Aug. 25, 2022

There were eels, gar, carp, river carpsuckers, gizzard shad, and buffalo.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Prehistoric-looking fish called gars, which have the slowest rate of molecular evolution of all jawed vertebrates, are the most striking examples.

From Science Magazine Mar. 8, 2024

“Economically, of course, it’s not worth it. Are we going to drain every lake when we spot gars there?” he said.

From Washington Post Aug. 25, 2022

I always loved the huge alligator snapping turtle, watch your hands, but the huge gars, alligator gars and catfish are gone forever.

From New York Times Mar. 26, 2018

The gars, a family of fish with long bodies, extended jaws, sharp teeth, and hard scales, has been on the planet for at least 100 million years.

From The Verge Dec. 20, 2015

Some of the beg gars look too young to have even taken the Trial.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

But lest it should move the hearts of the people, Lag garred beat the drum.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

So I was thinking, but what garred ye be whistling in my lug that she was a Princess?

From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Then she took it across her knee and garred it play snap like a rotten branch.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The haivers o' the two spooney craturs juist garred me feel like's I'd taen a fizzy drink or something.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

It would be aboot ane o'clock or thereaboot when Sandy gae me a daud wi' his elba that garred me a' jump.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

The deil's in you, Monkbarns, for garring odds and evens meet.

From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott




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