gudgeon
Example Sentences
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The EA and Thames Water are investigating after dead European eels, sticklebacks, gudgeon and stone loach were discovered in the River Pool.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three.
From Time Magazine Archive
O how foolish," he said; "it was of me to throw That fine gudgeon away!
From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by A. Novice
You eat a gudgeon a day, and you think you bribe God with gudgeon.”
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
