Get to know Swordfish better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like scombroid.
Swordfish in a sentence
Swordfish meaning
- A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
- A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
Synonyms of Swordfish
Using Swordfish
- The main meaning on this page is: A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius. | A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
- Useful related words include: saltwater fish, xiphias gladius, scombroid, scombroid fish.
- In the example corpus, swordfish often appears in combinations such as: the swordfish, swordfish and, swordfish was.
Context around Swordfish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Swordfish
- In this selection, "swordfish" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wings, marlin, ordered, torpedo, polpette and warbird stand out and add context to how "swordfish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at ordered swordfish for a and avoid shark swordfish or marlin. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "swordfish" sits close to words such as aaryan, acrimony and akash, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with swordfish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Swordfish Cocktail Club has changed hours for its Industry Night. (10 words)
Turn steaks over and spoon the sauce over the swordfish. (10 words)
Swordfish slices about 3/4-inch thick work best here. (10 words)
I'd be wide-eyed as a child as I passed hauls of shiny-eyed snapper and tumbles of baby octopus, oysters shucked and unshucked and umpteen types of fin fish, hunks of swordfish and towering piles of prawns and glossy, spiky sea urchins. (44 words)
Nakamura and Guest managed a table of over 15 people by dividing each dish up into a few serving bowls and trays, so that guests could more quickly serve themselves technicolor panzanella, frilly green salad and lemon zest-infused swordfish polpette. (41 words)
Fairey Swordfish Torpedo Planes Sank or Damaged Several of Italy’s Capital Ships in a Daring Raid That Would Become the Inspiration for the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor 13 Months Later. (32 words)
To make things even better, he’s thought up the perfect, classic Rebecchi fish name for her – ‘Swordfish’! (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
Incredible pictures captured on Friday (11 Aug) show the Navy Wings Swordfish Warbird airplane, W5856, as it participated in the annual RAF Valley Families Day.
The White Marlin Open is held annually in Ocean City and awards prize money for catches of white and blue marlin, tuna, wahoo, dolphin and swordfish.
For decades, Wild Oceans focused its efforts on tuna, marlin, swordfish, and sharks—in other words, big fish.
Mezze and pita for the table, then platters of skewered lamb kofta and swordfish with Turkish pilaf and chermoula.
Swordfish Cocktail Club has changed hours for its Industry Night.
The restaurant I worked at ordered swordfish for a Valentine’s Day special.
To make things even better, he’s thought up the perfect, classic Rebecchi fish name for her – ‘Swordfish’!
Turn steaks over and spoon the sauce over the swordfish.
Fairey Swordfish Torpedo Planes Sank or Damaged Several of Italy’s Capital Ships in a Daring Raid That Would Become the Inspiration for the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor 13 Months Later.
Jim Frazetti and his crew had a nice day on board the Talkin’ Trash with Captain Chris Little when they boated a swordfish, some mahi and some tilefish.
Mercury-containing fish: Avoid shark, swordfish, or marlin as they contain methylmercury, which may be harmful to an unborn baby’s nervous system.
The air group on Formidableincluded a squadron equipped with Fairey Albacore torpedo bombers, which were somewhat faster than the Swordfish.
The British realized that their battleships couldn’t catch up to the Italian force before nightfall—but the Swordfish torpedo bombers on the could.
Trenholm recalled one day steaming about 50 miles offshore for four hours, when he finally spotted a swordfish.
As an aside, we had swordfish last week, it was pretty good.
Greenpeace says their cables with hundreds of baited hooks along them end up snaring sharks as well as swordfish, which are the ostensible target of the fleets.
Guest tends to the swordfish polpette, inspired by the couple’s trip to Sicily for Peet and Mann’s wedding.
I'd be wide-eyed as a child as I passed hauls of shiny-eyed snapper and tumbles of baby octopus, oysters shucked and unshucked and umpteen types of fin fish, hunks of swordfish and towering piles of prawns and glossy, spiky sea urchins.
Nakamura and Guest managed a table of over 15 people by dividing each dish up into a few serving bowls and trays, so that guests could more quickly serve themselves technicolor panzanella, frilly green salad and lemon zest-infused swordfish polpette.
Swordfish slices about 3/4-inch thick work best here.
Common combinations with swordfish
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the swordfish 12×
- swordfish and 6×
- swordfish was 5×
- of swordfish 3×
- and swordfish 2×
- fairey swordfish 2×
- swordfish torpedo 2×
- swordfish or 2×
- swordfish polpette 2×
- wrestling swordfish 2×