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How to use fishwife in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word fishwife? Here are some examples.

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She'd turned into a shrewish, nagging fishwife who carried five sets of clothes around for her kids should they happen to get dirty.
It's a wild, 85-centimetre fishwife, whose little female brain I have difficulty in finding.
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.
Heeling hard, my jib flaps like a fishwife hanging the laundry and I feel desperate not to let Venus down.
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.
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.
My fishwife impression makes Aphrodite laugh.
Examples from Classical Literature
Patrick was summoned, and with his father and the fishwife, the boat was launched.
The boy was placed at the helm, and the fishwife and her brother took the oars.
This choice remark was accompanied by the grin of a fishwife and the stare of a drab.
I certainly do not resemble a fishwife, she said, nor have I any intention of acting as one.
A longshoreman wouldn't have called a fishwife what I called you, you blessed child.
According to the dictionary definition of a fishwife apart from women dismembering fish it also means a feminine skill for swearing.
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.
In another Moment, except Help come, the fishwife will be no more.
As a young local reporter in Hull in 1980, I saw Lillian fleetingly in a pub following an interview with a bereaved fishwife.
You will understand that I am not the man to wrangle like a fishwife.
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.
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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