sardine
IPA: sɑrdˈin
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 California sardine Sardinops sagax (syn. Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
- (obsolete) carnelian.
- (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
- A member of the Italian grassroots political movement organized to protest against the right-wing surge in the country and the political rhetoric of Matteo Salvini.
verb
- to fish for sardines
- to pack or cram together tightly.
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Examples of "sardine" in Sentences
- They caught sardine a lot in that year.
- Morocco is the sardine capital of the world.
- The women worked in the sardine can factories.
- The sardine is then set alight, to huge applause.
- There is no free fish in the ocean classified as a sardine.
- This form of sardines is a popular derivative of hide and seek.
- Tuna and sardine were particularly important to the city's economy.
- It and the Lake Tanganyika sardine are known collectively at kapenta.
- In the United States, the sardine canning industry peaked in the 1950s.
- Douarnenez was the world's leading sardine exporter in the 19th century.
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