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/sɑːˈdiːn/ · noun
Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden..
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.
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.
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Sardine means Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden..
Common synonyms include pilchard, sard, sardius, sardina pilchardus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They feasted on premium sardines packed in olive oil, as did their hunting dogs, who insisted on joining the meal.
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