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"Mackerel" in a Sentence (25 examples)
Today's breakfast was dried mackerel and miso soup.
It's hot, so you'd better head back quickly. Mackerel goes off so fast that they coined 'fresh-looking rotten fish'.
Mackerel tastes good whether you simmer it or grill it.
We two don't know what mackerel is in Tagalog.
In a cardboard box she has fruit, raisins, nuts, oats, kefir and canned fish, namely sardines, tuna and mackerel.
A significant quantity of mercury was found in the mackerel.
Holy mackerel! Is that a shark?
I'm on my way to the fish market. What would you like for lunch? Mackerel or sardine?
Mary likes mackerel.
Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel.
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[…] you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.
I am living fast, to see the Time, when a Book that misses its Tide, shall be neglected, as the Moon by Day, or like Mackarel a Week after the Season.
Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
He sometimes pinches the maids till their arms are as many colours as a mackerel’s back.
1982, Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Chapter 5, in Zami; Sister Outsider; Undersong, New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1993, p. 47, “ […] if you ever so much as breathe a word about my stories, Sandman’s comin’ after you the very same minute to pluck out you eyes like a mackerel for soup.”
a mackerel sky
MACKEREL CLOUDS.- Mackerel scales and mares' tails / Make lofty ships carry low sails.
Mackerel clouds in sky, Expect more wet than dry. A mackerel sky, Not twenty-four hours dry.
Mackerel in the sky, three days dry. […] Mackerel sky, mackerel sky - never long wet, never long dry.
1483, William Caxton, Magnus Cato, quoted in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, vol. 2, publ. by John Russell Smith (1847), page 536. […] nyghe his hows dwellyd a maquerel or bawde […]
NETTING MACKEREL: THE PIMP DETAIL
Hundreds of ‘night birds’ and their ‘mackerels’ and other vice-pushers were sent packing.
2006, Paul Crowley, Message-ID: in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare https://web.archive.org/web/20201001221812/https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/VarPp2-HSO0/QuMJdNOwfisJ A procurer or a pimp is a broker (or broker-between), a mackerel, or a pandar; the last is not necessarily-and, indeed, not usually-a professional.
You can't 'work' in a legal brothel without mackerel.
Perhaps, but my sources think the mackerel knew of this girl but she didn't know of him.
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