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sardine
1[ sahr-deen ]
noun
- the pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, often preserved in oil and used for food.
- any of various similar, closely related fishes of the herring family Clupeidae.
sardine
2[ sahr-dahyn, -dn ]
noun
- sard.
sardine
1/ ˈsɑːdiːn; -dən /
sardine
2/ sɑːˈdiːn /
noun
- any of various small marine food fishes of the herring family, esp a young pilchard See also sild
- like sardinesvery closely crowded together
Word History and Origins
Origin of sardine1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sardine1
Origin of sardine2
Idioms and Phrases
see packed in like sardines .Example Sentences
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.
Peppler 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.
All it had to offer refugees was a five-foot-wide sidewalk to lie down on beside the water, packed, I supposed, like sardines.
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.
He will eat a plateful of gazpacho or puchero, a sardine, half a roll of bread, and drink clear water as often as wine.
We'll start when some young sardine with shoulder-straps finishes his breakfast, and stop when John Morgan tears up the track.
The reader soddens in the consciousness of his own penetration as the sardine, equally headless, soaks in oil.
She's wearin' a palm leaf petticoat and a string o' shark's teeth around her neck with an empty sardine box for a pendant.
Salmon are rarely caught by still fishing, but they will take the spoon or a sardine or other small fish impaled upon the hook.
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