How to Use blowfish in a Sentence

blowfish

noun
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  • Tiger blowfish is supposed to be the most delicious kind of fugu.
    — New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • The headliner is the raw blowfish, sliced thin and fanned out on a plate like a hundred translucent flower petals.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Umad is a piscine creature who can bounce his bullets off walls and expand like a blowfish to deflect fire.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 31 July 2019
  • The parent company runs a farm that raises tiger blowfish, and about 50 restaurants in Japan that serve it.
    — New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • Swatch even put out a timepiece with Ms. Lepore’s face and blowfish red lips emblazoned across the dial.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 19 July 2017
  • The bar is complete with tiki mugs, nautical rope, blowfish and coconuts.
    — latimes.com, 15 Apr. 2017
  • Puffer fish, or blowfish, won their names from their ability to inflate themselves when disturbed.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • Hammerhead worms contain the same toxin as blowfish and can be harmful if eaten.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 15 July 2017
  • Aisle after aisle of crabs stacked atop each other like totem poles, tables with fish sprawled across every inch, cutting boards where women with machetes skin poisonous blowfish and slice out the meat.
    — Mitch Goldich, SI.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Pufferfish Pufferfish, also known as blowfish, are located in tropical seas around the globe.
    — Daniel Jameson, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Tunnel through the swarm and razzle-dazzle, the urgent flashing cries for everything from Asahi to fugu (blowfish) joints, and make your way to the comparatively sedate red-on-yellow façade of Creo-ru.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Pufferfish Pufferfish, also known as blowfish, are located in tropical seas around the globe, especially around Japan, China, and the Philippines.
    — Daniel Jameson, CNT, 10 July 2017
  • The only significant violence is done by Sean to a succession of animals both living and dead — rabbit carcasses, writhing eels, lobsters, crickets, blowfish.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Director Hui’s screenplay has its imaginative moments, most notably a hallucinatory episode after the couple ingests toxic blowfish.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017

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