How To Use Fishing expedition In A Sentence
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You can bet your bottom dollar that some of this is town hall staff on fishing expeditions to see what snippets they can discover about their neighbours.
The Sun
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Shareholder champion, or law firm on a fishing expedition?
Times, Sunday Times
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How is it that they are getting away with this fishing expedition among 90 people?
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I forgot, I had this fishing expedition planned.
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A false breakout occurs when the pros organize a fishing expedition to run stops.
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The Senate Whitewater Committee hearings proved nothing, and its license to continue its fishing expedition has expired.
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Their continuing actions are clearly a fishing expedition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Philippa," he began, "you know that when I go out on these fishing expeditions, I also put in some work at the new chart which I am so anxious to prepare for the fishermen.
The Zeppelin's Passenger
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It was a fishing expedition without a hook.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Senate Whitewater Committee hearings proved nothing, and its license to continue its fishing expedition has expired.
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What they had wanted was to have gone on a fishing expedition.
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When there is no evidence there should be no fishing expeditions.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have known a black-fishing expedition stopped because a "yellow yite," or yellow-hammer, hovered round the gang when they were setting out.
Auld Licht Idyls
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There are other tales, too - of giants, lycanthropes, armed robberies that don't go as planned, secret missions, Siamese twins, and fishing expeditions.
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If anyone asked what they were up to, they planned to say they were on a fishing expedition.
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The judge say the prosecutor were on a fishing expedition and stopped him.
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Its only purpose can be to do one of three things: self - "vindicate" bad loser revenge, sell products, such as advertising on Fox News, books, speaking tours etc. and/or troll for the unhinged on a "fishing expedition" for tomorrow's assassins.
Frank Schaeffer: Dr. Tiller, Murder, Domestic Terrorism and the Republican Right
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Was that to sustain the subpoena and to show that it was not a pure fishing expedition and that you had a justifiable course of inquiry that you were pursuing?
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This January can only have been a more than usually urgent fishing expedition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Had it been lost overboard during a prehistoric fishing expedition?
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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What Triesman suffered was a fishing expedition, in which Jacobs was the trawlerman, the ubiquitous Max Clifford the dockside salesman and the Mail on Sunday the wholesaler.
Whose interests are being served by this squalid tale of entrapment?
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I have known a black-fishing expedition stopped because a "yellow yite," or yellowhammer, hovered round the gang when they were setting out.
Auld Licht Idylls
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That is their excuse to send the Special Branch, traditionally regarded as MI5's footsoldiers, on a disgraceful fishing expedition.
