How to Use silver carp in a Sentence

silver carp

noun
  • When startled, silver carp can leap several feet out of the water and injure boaters.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026
  • They're most known for blocking boat access to recreation or, in the case of silver carp, causing hazardous conditions for boaters.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Though they couldn’t be easily caught with traditional fishing gear, the silver carp could be scooped mid-leap with landing nets.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Loud motors can scare silver carp into jumping up to 5 feet in the air, sometimes leaving recreational boaters with bloody noses, black eyes and bruises.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • No bighead or silver carp have ever been reported in Lake Michigan, said Greg McClinchey, the commission's director of policy and legislative affairs.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Frustrated by delays in federal and state deterrence projects, and annoyed by their own encounters with the flying fish, residents of a small town in western Illinois saw both a challenge and an opportunity in the large numbers of silver carp that infested their stretch of the Illinois River.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • After extreme flooding events in the 1980s and 1990s, the fish escaped into the Mississippi River basin, and, alongside silver carp, bighead remain the most detrimental to aquatic environments.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026

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