How do you use Goby in a sentence? See 9 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like gudgeon, plus the exact meaning.
Goby meaning
- Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.
- A gudgeon, a fish of the subfamily Gobioninae, such as Gobio gobio.
Synonyms of Goby
Using Goby
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. | A gudgeon, a fish of the subfamily Gobioninae, such as Gobio gobio.
- Useful related words include: gudgeon, percoid fish, percoid, percoidean.
- In the example corpus, goby often appears in combinations such as: goby fish, of goby, the goby.
Context around Goby
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Goby
- In this selection, "goby" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, barred, round, fish, blending and inhabitants stand out and add context to how "goby" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a goby blending in and and the goby fish live. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "goby" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with goby
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The broad-barred goby (Gobidion histrio) in the coral Acropora nasuta. (11 words)
A goby blending in with the sand in Bocas del Toro, Panama. (12 words)
Chikuni, pp. 8, 16, 19 Newer species of goby fish was also discovered. (13 words)
Its range, which has expanded to Lake Huron, poses a significant threat to the lower lake fishery. citation Five years after first being observed in the St. Clair River, the round goby can now be found in all of the Great Lakes. (42 words)
So, through a chain of events, when toxic seaweed tries to take up residence on this species of coral, the coral is able to promptly beckon its goby-inhabitants to defend against the danger. (34 words)
Rapala Jigs, Storm Wild Eye Jigs, Howie’s Goby Head tipped with a minnow or plastic and Sweedish Pimples just to name a few. (24 words)
Example sentences (9)
A goby blending in with the sand in Bocas del Toro, Panama.
So, through a chain of events, when toxic seaweed tries to take up residence on this species of coral, the coral is able to promptly beckon its goby-inhabitants to defend against the danger.
The broad-barred goby (Gobidion histrio) in the coral Acropora nasuta.
Rapala Jigs, Storm Wild Eye Jigs, Howie’s Goby Head tipped with a minnow or plastic and Sweedish Pimples just to name a few.
Chikuni, pp. 8, 16, 19 Newer species of goby fish was also discovered.
In case of danger the goby fish touches the shrimp with its tail to warn it.
Its range, which has expanded to Lake Huron, poses a significant threat to the lower lake fishery. citation Five years after first being observed in the St. Clair River, the round goby can now be found in all of the Great Lakes.
The shrimp digs and cleans up a burrow in the sand in which both the shrimp and the goby fish live.
The snake was helpful in keeping the population of goby fish in check.
Common combinations with goby
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- goby fish 4×
- of goby 2×
- the goby 2×