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Sardine


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.
  • (n.) See Sardius.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
  • (2) Two other species of fish that we really don't eat enough of are sardines and herring.
  • (3) There he caught the eye of the national party leadership with a TV ad attacking a local Labor policy for higher-density housing: it starred a woman opening a sardine can.
  • (4) The lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activities of aged rats fed the sardine oil diet increased significantly, whereas the activities of aged rats fed the lard diet decreased.
  • (5) The diet containing 5% sardine oil rich in eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids stimulated the mixed function oxidase system, but the diet containing 5% lard in which lard consisted of 10.7% linolenic acid and 1.5% linolenic acid seemed unlikely to stimulate enough the mixed function oxidase system.
  • (6) Furthermore, at the end of the storage period, the number of bacteria in the samples of frozen fatty sardines were higher than in the samples of frozen lean sardine.
  • (7) In the sample studied the proportion of foods contained in non-soldered as opposed to soldered cans has risen consistently during the survey and now accounts for 83% of all samples (excluding sardines).
  • (8) The enzyme highly purified from sardine liver had an Mr of about 121,000, with two identical subunits.
  • (9) 4.32pm: "I love Portuguese sardines," announces Kanjorski, going off at a slightly eccentric tangent.
  • (10) The best results were obtained with descaled sardine, and with the addition of 8% NaCl, 10% corn flour and a condiment mixture.
  • (11) We have synthesized 11 heterocyclic aromatic amines with chemical structures related to that of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo [4,5-f] quinoline (IQ), a potent mutagen occurring in broiled sardines, fried beef and beef extract.
  • (12) I think the fact that we have communities which are so diverse and that you can have people squashed together like sardines in the London tube from different backgrounds, different cultures, different skin colours, different traditions, different perspectives and still do so peaceably and generously to each other I think is a great thing.
  • (13) "It's like sardines, it's packed solid and there are thousands of people trying to get out and nobody's moving," he told Sky News.
  • (14) Eating raw sardines was the only common epidemiological feature.
  • (15) It’s a small, unassuming restaurant where even the queue to get in is exciting – order a cold beer and watch one of the owners grill fresh sardines and red mullet by the door as you wait.
  • (16) The fatty acids in lipids from the ordinary meat of sardine was stable and those in the dark meat were extremely unstable during storage after cooking.
  • (17) Centre stage was instead ceded to actor Shia LaBeouf whose only utterance was to repeat Eric Cantona's famously gnomic saying – "When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" – before walking out of the room, to the consternation of his fellow actors.
  • (18) When they were built in the late 19th century, the brick-and-granite blocks were bustling with activity, as shoppers came and went from surrounding homes, sardine canneries, and the archipelago of Canadian islands just across the bay from what was then a town of more than 5,000.
  • (19) Sardine minced flesh presented the highest value of free fatty acids at-10 degrees C during the second month of storage (620 mg%) while cachama at the fourth month (230 mg%).
  • (20) However, certain non-scombroid fish, most notably mahi-mahi, bluefish, and sardines, when spoiled are also commonly implicated in histamine poisoning.

Sprat


Definition:

  • (n.) A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
  • (n.) A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
  • (2) Rats receiving canned "small-sized sprats" or "sprats developed much more often malignant tumors of different localization than did the animals fed on "Stavrida" or control rats.
  • (3) It has nothing to do with militarisation.” South China Sea: US bomber angers Beijing with Spratly islands flypast Read more The development, later confirmed by the Taiwanese defence ministry, reverberated through an Asean (Association of South-East Asian Nations) leaders’ meeting in California, hosted by Barack Obama.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea, in this image provided by the US navy.
  • (5) Beijing is militarising the Spratly islands despite the fact that it has said it would not,” said Ashley Townshend, a fellow at the University of Sydney’s United States studies centre.
  • (6) One of the peculiarities of Beijing’s longstanding claim over the two South China Sea island chains, the Paracels and the Spratlys, is that they lie so far from the country that it has been effectively impossible for the Chinese military to patrol the area from its existing bases hundreds of nautical miles away.
  • (7) Warm the oil in a shallow frying pan on a high heat, add the sprats and squeeze over the lime juice.
  • (8) Similar US patrols were also conducted around features that Vietnam and the Philippines have built up in the Spratlys in the past, according to the US Defense Department.
  • (9) China has almost finished construction of a 3,000m runway on the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea, satellite images have shown.
  • (10) US manoeuvre in South China Sea leaves little wiggle room with China Read more The guided-missile destroyer reportedly received orders to travel within 12 nautical miles (22.2km, or 13.8 miles) of the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, which are at the heart of a controversial Chinese island building campaign that has soured ties between Washington and Beijing.
  • (11) In a report, China’s new Spratly island defences , the AMTI said its analysts had identified what appeared to be defence “fortifications” on Fiery Cross, Mischief and Subi reefs.
  • (12) The best results were obtained with the use of sprat hydrolysate nutrient agar.
  • (13) Ambitious Chinese reclamation work has added to tensions around the Spratly archipelago, where the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have competing territorial claims.
  • (14) China says it has been 'restrained' by not seizing more islands in South China Sea Read more The US recently sailed a warship within 22km (13 miles) of the Spratly archipelago in a direct challenge to China’s territorial claims.
  • (15) The two countries are locked in long-standing territorial disputes over the Paracel and Spratly islands, which both claim, and often trade diplomatic barbs over oil exploration and fishing rights in the contested waters.
  • (16) The levels of organochlorine pesticides reported are two to three times higher than those reported for wet muscles of sprats sampled in the same area two years before, whilst for PCB the levels differ slightly.
  • (17) Jack Sprat (@Jacqueimo) Some carefully deployed protest cockroaches seem to have brought a halt to Byron's shaftesbury Ave operations.
  • (18) Barack Obama’s decision to send a US guided missile destroyer into disputed waters off the Spratly islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday has provoked predictable outpourings of rage and veiled threats from Beijing – but nothing, yet, in the way of a military response.
  • (19) China’s heated response to Tuesday’s manoeuvre by the USS Lassen off the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, where Beijing is controversially building military airstrips and lighthouses on reclaimed land, left it little wiggle room.
  • (20) China should plan to take Taiwan by force after Trump call, state media says Read more The Washington-based group said the images, which were taken last month, showed what appeared to be anti-aircraft guns and close-in weapons systems (CIWS) installed on man-made islands in the South China Sea’s disputed Spratly archipelago, where Brunei, China , Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam all have territorial claims.

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