bream

[US]/briːm/
[UK]/brim/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a type of fish in the carp family, also known as bronze bream
vt. clean

Phrases & Collocations

fishing for bream

bream fillet

bream dish

sea bream

Example Sentences

the jury acquitted Bream of murder.

bream have strong predatory instincts.

Extruded feed for marine fish: Turbot, flounder, salmon, tuna, sea-bream, swellfish, yellow crock, sea bass, rockfish, red drum, etc.

He caught a bream while fishing in the lake.

The chef prepared a delicious bream dish for the special event.

She ordered a grilled bream with lemon and herbs.

The bream population in the river has been declining due to pollution.

The angler cast his line in hopes of catching a bream.

The bream was seasoned with salt and pepper before being cooked.

The restaurant's signature dish is a whole roasted bream with garlic butter sauce.

The fisherman proudly displayed his large bream catch.

Bream are known for their distinctive silver scales and red eyes.

The bream fillets were pan-fried until golden brown.

Real-world Examples

The bream were on the bed and the weather was exactly right.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

He knew where the bream were biting and we had had no luck for weeks.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

" I'll bring you a mess of bream one day, " he said.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

It always starts with one bream who, eyes  pointing downward, notices a suspicious dimple in the sand.

Source: Radio Laboratory

Yeah. So, we've got some whole sea bream like you get from the supermarket. They've been scaled and scored, we're gonna season them up, olive oil, salt and put them on the grill.

Source: Gourmet Base

SABRINA IMBLER: The scientists marveled at  the bream's collective action, approaching and mobbing a predator such as a sand striker invites  real danger: losing a fin, a patch of scales, even dying.

Source: Radio Laboratory

While his peers might have been trying their luck with a potential squeeze in the dark corner of a parquet-floored hall, he was sitting under the moonlight with a rod, eager to catch a handsome carp, perch or bream.

Source: The Guardian (Article Version)

SABRINA IMBLER: When the scientists published the paper on the monocle bream, they called  their behavior " novel." And it was, in the sense that humans had never observed it before, but had we even thought to look?

Source: Radio Laboratory

Mama was a much better seamstress than I--But if the Lord sends forth a strangely agreeable slave to the sewing machine, surely it is pleasanter and more profitable to spend one's time on the lovely lake, dangling a bamboo pole for bream.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

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