Herring

//ˈhɛɹɪŋ//

"Herring" in a Sentence (11 examples)

The police followed a red herring while they let the true criminal escape.

In order to distract the others, we brought up this irrelevant issue as a red herring.

What she liked best was herring roe.

Herring tastes good with potatoes.

It's a red herring.

He ate a herring salad.

Smoked herring is called buckling.

I really feel it's a red herring.

Herring salad does not taste good to me.

More than 250 fish species use the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries for some portion of their life cycles, including American and hickory shad, river herring, striped bass, eel, weakfish, bluefish, flounder, oysters, and blue crabs. More than 300 migratory bird species can also be found in the watershed.

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Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

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