Sardine

//sɑːˈdiːn//

"Sardine" in a Sentence (18 examples)

I'm on my way to the fish market. What would you like for lunch? Mackerel or sardine?

Mary gave Tom a funny look after he massaged her feet with oil from a sardine can.

The carnival finished with the traditional sardine burial and the city returned to its normal peace and quiet.

I throw the sardine as bait.

I use the sardine as bait.

It could be a sardine.

The annual migration of these tiny fish, called the sardine run, delights fishermen and women — in part because it also draws in larger marine predators.

They feasted on premium sardines packed in olive oil, as did their hunting dogs, who insisted on joining the meal.

They watched bemused as countless sardines disgorged from a railway car that was never designed to hold so many passengers.

No one on Monhegan says they saw them, but a man sardining says he saw it headed there, or at least some boat with people atop it.

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Six-foot- four McMichael (a past master at the art of sardining) not only crammed enough clothes for the trip into the mighty midget, but carried a full set of golf clubs and a banjo, as well!

Would it be unbearably elitist to suggest that they would be more enjoyable still if the director removed a row or two of chairs, instead of sardining as many listeners as possible into the intimate music room?

There were already six members of the Nureyev family living in a room sixteen meters square, the children sardined on one mattress on the floor, their parents separated by only a curtain.

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

A new grassroots movement called ‘sardines’ is fighting against Italy's rightwing strongman Matteo Salvini across the nation after a spectacular launch in Bologna last week.

But they might need more than prayer to effectively compete with the Sardines, who in the last month have packed themselves tightly in ever-increasing numbers into piazzas in city after Italian city.

The nonpartisan “Sardines” movement organized mass protests against the reemergence of the far right in Italy and re-energized politics in the run up to the regional elections that were held in Emilia Romagna in January.

As demonstrated by the mobilizations that have taken place in recent months, as in the case of the Sardine, the invisibles of Aboubakahr as well as the Friday’s For Future or anti-racist movements, the involvement of political institutions is almost non-existent. ¶ In Italy, active participation is in fact not supported by political parties.

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