How to Use sunfish in a Sentence

sunfish

noun
  • Look to ponds, small lakes and reservoirs for sunfish.
    — Chad Mason, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026
  • One rod can be rigged for bass while the other can be rigged for sunfish.
    — Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
  • The two have just come across a sunfish and Bergin is losing his mind.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2015
  • Her paws would flash, pinning the gold belly of a sunfish to the grass.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Staff have been waving at the sunfish, too, in an effort to cheer it up.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
  • For ice-out trout, perch, and sunfish, try using half a garden worm.
    — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
  • At the dock, a friend weighed the sunfish and the scale read 1 pound, 12 ounces.
    — David Strege, USA TODAY, 14 May 2022
  • Bass, carp and sunfish can be found in warmer lakes, reservoirs and rivers all over the country.
    — Outside Online, 9 May 2022
  • More than once in this pool, a lure intended for a bass or sunfish has been grabbed by a catfish.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
  • The same side has yielded scores of sunfish — redbreasts and bluegills, some weighing a pound or more.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
  • Anglers have been catching bass, sunfish and northerns and, in the evening hours, some walleyes.
    — Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The lake also holds strong numbers of sunfish, some up to 8 inches long.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 11 June 2024
  • Both of these bass are members of the sunfish family, as are also black bass.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Bait fishing with live sunfish that sit on the bottom is very effective for this.
    — Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
  • Bluegill sunfish are common to lakes east of the Rocky Mountains.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • The sunfish's head had a large contusion, which was likely caused by a heavy impact.
    — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The next day, the sunfish began eating again and seemed more content overall.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
  • What gives with all the super-sized redear sunfish at Havasu?
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 22 May 2021
  • German’s close encounter with a sunfish isn’t the first time the sea creatures have stirred up viral waves.
    — NBC News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Locate a prime sunfish spawning area, and fast fishing is assured.
    — Shannon Tompkins Staff Writer, San Antonio Express-News, 7 June 2018
  • When catching sunfish, a very small hook is used and generally no weight is required.
    — Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
  • Shore fishing in the park is best during the spring when crappies and sunfish are in the lagoons and shallows.
    — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • So goldfish hogged food and space that could have supported more native fish, like sunfish and catfish.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • First, an orca will target the pectoral fins, then slash the sunfish across its body to remove the viscera.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026
  • June serves as trigger June is spawning season for most of Texas’ sunfish.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 June 2018
  • Tipping the jigs with waxworms can help tempt steel, but fallfish and sunfish often beat the steelhead to the bait.
    — Jimmy Fee, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2020
  • One whale holds down the dead body of a large sunfish, which can grow over 6 feet long and weigh over 4,000 pounds.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 July 2026
  • Early in the season, Genz targets emerging weed beds that hold pre- and post-spawn sunfish.
    — Steve Hoffman / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 22 June 2019
  • Many different minnow species abound, and various sunfish are in the mix.
    — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Out of them come scientists, also here to fish, but not for the bream and sunfish that are being caught and released for sport.
    — Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025

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