gar
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Inside the coprolite, scientists identified several feathers, tiny scales from a gar fish, and leg bones belonging to a hesperornithiform bird.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Local authorities identified it as an alligator gar — a torpedo-shaped freshwater fish with razor-sharp teeth — and launched an operation to capture it.
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
Alligator gars, native to the Americas, were introduced to China as pet fish.
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
He made a sweech wi' the bissam shaft 'at garred the licht o' the can'le waggle frae side to side.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
I says, giein' him a shak' that garred him turn up the white o' his een.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
Robin Fordyce," says the old lady severely, "what garred ye loose Heatherbell in among the neeps.
From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay
"But what could hae garred him leave our Ellen?"
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
An' oot at the door he gaed, halin't to ahent him wi' a bang that garred the very sweetie bottles rattle.
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
