sardine
1the pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, often preserved in oil and used for food.
any of various similar, closely related fishes of the herring family Clupeidae.
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How to use sardine in a sentence
Another is a dreamof the inside of a river, slips down like sardines in oil,pulls my body long and sleek to chatter about currentsto any otter that would listen.
Five poems about the mind | Cynthia Miller, Paula Bohince, Anthony Anaxagorou, Tishani Doshi, Zeina Hashem Beck | August 25, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewPeppler likes half a rotisserie chicken or a can of sardines.
The other night, I made le petit aioli, for two, with these tiny tomatoes, crusty whole-grain bread and a can of sardines — there’s nothing better.
They were heavy with sardines unable to fly and lost in the dense fog as they came in from the sea attracted by our lights.
Here’s the real story behind Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ | Tom McNamara | December 3, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAll it had to offer refugees was a five-foot-wide sidewalk to lie down on beside the water, packed, I supposed, like sardines.
A fallout shelter might have caused you to fall out with your neighbors | John Kelly | November 4, 2020 | Washington Post
JR: Oh well, Gwyneth Paltrow, my little Gwennie-Wennie, and her two children, what is it…Apple and sardine?
If Katchor sets a scene in front of a computer, expect to see sardine oil smudged across the screen.
Smoked Fish Surrealism: Ben Katchor’s Comics of NYC Neurotics | Jacob Siegel | March 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe will eat a plateful of gazpacho or puchero, a sardine, half a roll of bread, and drink clear water as often as wine.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. StreetWe'll start when some young sardine with shoulder-straps finishes his breakfast, and stop when John Morgan tears up the track.
Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) | John McElroyThe reader soddens in the consciousness of his own penetration as the sardine, equally headless, soaks in oil.
Love in a Cloud | Arlo BatesShe's wearin' a palm leaf petticoat and a string o' shark's teeth around her neck with an empty sardine box for a pendant.
Captain Scraggs | Peter B. KyneSalmon are rarely caught by still fishing, but they will take the spoon or a sardine or other small fish impaled upon the hook.
Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast | Harry Thom Payne
British Dictionary definitions for sardine (1 of 2)
/ (sɑːˈdiːn) /
any of various small marine food fishes of the herring family, esp a young pilchard: See also sild
like sardines very closely crowded together
Origin of sardine
1British Dictionary definitions for sardine (2 of 2)
/ (ˈsɑːdiːn, -dən) /
another name for sard
Origin of sardine
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with sardine
see packed in like sardines.
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