carp

Example Sentences

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“Isn’t that Bashō?” thinks a golden carp swimming nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Vance joked this activity put "a strain on the special relationship" with his children all catching carp, while the foreign secretary came away empty-handed.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

After 400 of the ornamental carp were stolen from an office park outside Washington in 2013, the Washington Post noted that some collectors “will pay as much as $25,000 for a championship fish.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025

This is a relatively small amount compared with international production levels, but still notable considering that rainbow trout is a new farmed species in China, unlike traditional species like carp.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025

The waters would subside very fast and in places the water would be so low that, as the carp swam back upstream, the backs of the fish would raise a furrow in the water.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya