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
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
Next to those should be ranked the white river-fish, which have scales, as pike, perch, gudgeon.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
One day the gudgeon of the cutter’s rudder was missing, and was believed to have been stolen.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
