How to Use alewife in a Sentence

alewife

noun

• That marked the end of the alewife run up to Highland Lake.
  — James Prosek, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2020
• But dams and other changes to the land cut the fish off from many lakes, which became alewife-free.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2011
• Dead alewife fish pile up on Lake Michigan shores in rare die-off.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 23 June 2022
• The alewife crash started around 2003, but few noticed it at first.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• The alewife is a member of the herring family native to the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2022
• Lake Michigan became overwhelmed with the small, silvery alewife.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2022
• At opposite ends of a block on Flatbush Avenue, a sea turtle and an alewife herring are trying to hail a taxi.
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2021
• That allowed another invader, the alewife, to soar in numbers.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2022
• Without lake trout to feed on the alewife—a small river herring—the invasive fish’s population exploded throughout the lakes.
  — Jason Treat, Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
• That restoration effort sputtered for decades — until the alewife population started to fade.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Forward-looking fisheries scientists decided to try stocking non-native salmon and trout in the lake to help reduce the over-abundant alewife population.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2022
• But When the alewife population collapsed, native walleye started reproducing in the wild.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• The protection order worked as expected; alewife numbers rebounded.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• But even in Middle America, gizzard shad and alewife movements get the channel cats charged up.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026