Grunion

A grunion is a small, sardinelike fish that lays its eggs on dry sand on certain full moon cycles each year. ❋ Harry Hamlin (2010)

Those mosh-pit women clot like those spawning fish called grunion, I said. ❋ Carole Nelson Douglas (2009)

It is the story of the education, along with a few other of her shared memories of little things, that have brought my mother and Fitzgerald together alive for me: Fitzgerald looking at her “with such love,” with his head cocked to one side, the two of them lying at opposite ends of a sofa with their shoes and socks off and massaging one another's toes, the two of them at Malibu scooping into buckets the tiny fish called grunion that come onto the beach at night to spawn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At first I thought it was the combination of sand and salt from my romp in the ocean with the grunion, but soon I came to realize the worst. ❋ Harry Hamlin (2010)

The grunion is and was a protected fish, and catching them by hand as they lay their eggs is not only cruel and stupid but also illegal. ❋ Harry Hamlin (2010)

When the grunion “run” they seemingly run up the beach on their tails, lay their eggs, and then flop back down to the water to ride a wave out to sea. ❋ Harry Hamlin (2010)

He told me that catching grunion by hand was illegal and that he was having the same conversation with all the boys. ❋ Harry Hamlin (2010)

We used to go watch the grunion run up on the beach and flop around in the moonlight by the thousands. ❋ Editorial Anonymous (2009)

Ladies in fashionable evening dresses, held up to their knees, laughing and playing, chasing grunion at the water's edge. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Grayson opens with descriptions of the eerie yet magical encounters Lynne had with grunion. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Chalcedeans had arrived, thick as grunion spawning on a beach. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2000)

No boundary separated the bar crowd from pressure-packed bodies writhing and jerking like beached grunion. ❋ Kellerman, Jonathan (1992)

The Pacific grunion, whose celebrated mating pattern was locked to high tides and moonless nights, was in grave trouble, and seemed to be heading for rapid extinction. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1982)

If you had a skillet hot on the coals and threw in a handful of grunion you could never have a finer dish. ❋ Brayton Norton (1914)

Olguin was known for his exuberance, teaching students by making them dance like a jellyfish or a grunion. ❋ Unknown (2011)

During the ensuing decades he started educational programs that introduced children and others to such topics as grunion, tide pools and whales. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Around 90 percent of the grunion runs take place on beaches in Los Angeles, ❋ < (2010)

My coworker is such a grunion, she smells like [B.O]., her hair is so [nappy], and she [clears] her throat every thirty seconds. ❋ Rcobbs13 (2006)

"[Stacy] is a [grunion]" or "Damn that [Grunion] she keeps on [snorting]" ❋ Rob (2004)

" [C'mon] Bro , You [dont even] have a grunion to [spot me] ? ❋ Santiago Slim (2012)

You are [apt] to find some [grunion] (2) in [the Wisconsin] aisle of the [Grunion] (1). ❋ Vmx (2008)

While [at the beach], don't let the kids [go to the bathroom] alone because there may be a grunion in there waiting for [man-love]. ❋ J. Morris (2005)

Man, I drank three [40's] of [Old English] last night. You should've seen the grunion I had this morning! It was [foul]! ❋ Jason (2004)

Don't forget to the [grunions] [and bacon] bits on my [baked potato]! ❋ Goldmund (2012)

Guy 1: "She's [kinda] cute." Guy 2: "[Don't do it] bro. That girl is a [grunion]." ❋ Tspam752 (2017)

[Sabrina] "hey Nusun you got any herb?" Nusun " yeah but i am down to the grunions, just [flakes] and thc." [sabrina]" damn" ❋ Xylena (2006)

[the bag] of [chips] were already eaten, but i will [go ahead and] finish the grunions on the bottom of the bag ❋ Sexy Redhead (2007)