Wondering how to use Minnow in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as cyprinid.
Minnow meaning
- Any small fish.
- The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
Synonyms of Minnow
Minnow vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Minnow
- The main meaning on this page is: Any small fish. | Any small fish. | The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
- Useful related words include: phoxinus phoxinus, cyprinid, cyprinid fish.
- Possible Dutch translations are: ondermaatse vis.
- In the example corpus, minnow often appears in combinations such as: or minnow, minnow in, with minnow.
Context around Minnow
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 14 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Minnow
- In this selection, "minnow" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, silvery, plains, quiver, lake, plains and sturgeon stand out and add context to how "minnow" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include atomic jerk minnow catching fish and british tech minnow nanoco draws. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "minnow" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with minnow
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It came on a crappie rig and minnow. (8 words)
Use a minnow or worm under a bobber. (8 words)
British tech minnow Nanoco draws line under Samsung IP spat. (10 words)
Fishing on the outside of the weed beds on the northeast side of the lake was productive at first light, with anglers casting bigger hard-body lures like the Daiwa Double Clutch or Atomic jerk minnow catching fish. (38 words)
Some of the fish they believed had been completely lost upstream of the dam included channel catfish, sauger, goldeye, river carpsucker, flathead chub, Western silvery minnow, plains minnow, sturgeon chub and shovelnose sturgeon. (33 words)
The only farewell was to California’s McClatchy family, with no mention that in the end that family was a minnow that ate the Knight Ridder whale and could never digest it. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Some of the fish they believed had been completely lost upstream of the dam included channel catfish, sauger, goldeye, river carpsucker, flathead chub, Western silvery minnow, plains minnow, sturgeon chub and shovelnose sturgeon.
Best bait was an IJO Plastics quiver minnow in unicorn under a slip float.
Lewes Harbour Marina said Gracie Hudson used a Nic Rig that she bought at the store with a minnow to catch a flounder out of the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal.
Use Cubby Mini Mite with a crappie nibble or Gulp Minnow on a size 4 Aberdeen hook.
British tech minnow Nanoco draws line under Samsung IP spat.
For families with little ones, Minnow’s Cove offers a secondary kids area with shallow water, mini-slides, waterfalls and splash pads.
Take, for example, the Sparks Street development, the Minnow Lake retirement complex or this 150-unit building in the city's south end.
Two municipally owned properties have been earmarked for potential affordable housing developments, including a six-acre tract in Minnow Lake and 11.5 acres in Azilda.
A lot of the smaller minnow species prefer the shallow, sandy, clearer areas to avoid predators.
Black Crappie – Fair: Use a small piece of crawler or minnow on a jig either drifting or fished under a bobber near submerged woody structure.
Jonny Petrowske sets hard-sided minnow traps to catch spottail shiners in April 2015 on Upper Red Lake.
Minnow would have had plenty of wire on board, for internal and external lighting at a very minimum.
The only farewell was to California’s McClatchy family, with no mention that in the end that family was a minnow that ate the Knight Ridder whale and could never digest it.
A Zara Spook, Jumpin’ Minnow, Super Fluke or similar bait will catch boiling stripers.
Cast and retrieve a small jig or a minnow 18 inches under a bobber.
Fishing on the outside of the weed beds on the northeast side of the lake was productive at first light, with anglers casting bigger hard-body lures like the Daiwa Double Clutch or Atomic jerk minnow catching fish.
It came on a crappie rig and minnow.
Rapala Jigs, Storm Wild Eye Jigs, Howie’s Goby Head tipped with a minnow or plastic and Sweedish Pimples just to name a few.
Use a minnow or worm under a bobber.
Black Crappie – Fair: Drift or troll a small jig or minnow in deeper near the outlet.
Common combinations with minnow
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- or minnow 4×
- minnow in 3×
- with minnow 2×
- minnow on 2×
- minnow lake 2×
- minnow or 2×