angling

IPA: ˈæŋgɫɪŋ

noun

  • A form of fishing, with a rod, line and angle (hook) for recreation or sport.
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Examples of "angling" in Sentences

  • "Blackwood's Magazine, an important landmark in English angling literature."
  • One of the most perplexing things in all of angling is how fish see and respond to color.
  • Disgracing the predominantly southern, rural, Christian sport of angling, which is school-speak for fishing, by the way.
  • The first progressive, Teddy Roosevelt, angered at his successor, Taft, spent most of Taft’s first term angling for the republicans to toss him out.
  • An American book on angling is a novelty, and yet America has "thousands of brooks, creeks, rivers, lakes, bays, and inlets" which "abound in game-fish."
  • There is also a visual timeline that highlights great milestones in angling history (e.g. Kim Bain-Moore, the first woman to compete in the Bassmaster Classic, other historic Team Evinrude moments, Ole Evinrude’s invention of the outboard motor in 1909, etc.).
  • Instead, my sister would tell me stories about the bear in the ceiling – there was proof of his existence, you could see the crack angling from the doorway to halfway across the room – who would become restless and crash down on us if I kept talking and he heard me.

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