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Sentence Examples
| She'd turned into a shrewish, nagging fishwife who carried five sets of clothes around for her kids should they happen to get dirty. |
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| It's a wild, 85-centimetre fishwife, whose little female brain I have difficulty in finding. |
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| When his mood darkens like thunder over his grace-and-favour manor in the Chilterns, he will curse like a fishwife and strike like an adder. |
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| Heeling hard, my jib flaps like a fishwife hanging the laundry and I feel desperate not to let Venus down. |
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| Returning to his house in the New Town one day in 1769, Hume, monstrously fat by then, fell into a bog and despaired of extrication until an old fishwife happened by. |
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| In Part 2, we turn to the story of glamorous and inaccessible Mathilde — who, we learn, was born in France, as Aurélie, her mother a fishwife in Nantes, her father a stonemason. |
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| My fishwife impression makes Aphrodite laugh. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Patrick was summoned, and with his father and the fishwife, the boat was launched. |
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| The boy was placed at the helm, and the fishwife and her brother took the oars. |
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| This choice remark was accompanied by the grin of a fishwife and the stare of a drab. |
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| I certainly do not resemble a fishwife, she said, nor have I any intention of acting as one. |
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| A longshoreman wouldn't have called a fishwife what I called you, you blessed child. |
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| According to the dictionary definition of a fishwife apart from women dismembering fish it also means a feminine skill for swearing. |
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| Needless to say, with gobby fishwife Anna finding out that Faye has been abandoned, Tim gets a ferocious ear-bashing when he eventually shows up. |
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| In another Moment, except Help come, the fishwife will be no more. |
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| As a young local reporter in Hull in 1980, I saw Lillian fleetingly in a pub following an interview with a bereaved fishwife. |
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| You will understand that I am not the man to wrangle like a fishwife. |
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| And it brought the wonderfully raucous Gladys Morgan, whose high-C cackle made your average fishwife or even Vera Duckworth sound refined, to a huge audience. |
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| Not only did the first exhibition display Fresh Fish' there was also Fishing Boats Returning, A Cornish Fishwife and several coastal scenes. |
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