herring
noun
an important food fish, Clupea harengus harengus, found in enormous shoals in the North Atlantic.
herrings
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pluralof herring.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His thematic concepts and narrative red herrings rely on the viewer’s presence.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Red herrings pop up and disappear, a climactic series of revelations indicates hidden villainy, and every detail feels ho-hum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
"The fun is to play into the red herrings," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024
More broadly, he cautions, many antibodies will prove to be red herrings that have nothing to do with disease processes.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
Every day he’d bring home three herrings and a loaf of bread — but sometimes the herrings had been dead so long we couldn’t eat ’em.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
