Sardine is an English word with synonyms like pilchard or chalcedony. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sardine meaning
- 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.
- Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
Synonyms of Sardine
Using Sardine
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
- Useful related words include: pilchard, clupeid fish, clupeid, calcedony.
- In the example corpus, sardine often appears in combinations such as: the sardine, sardine run, sardine cans.
Context around Sardine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sardine
- In this selection, "sardine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, floating, thriving, popular, run, cans and roads stand out and add context to how "sardine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a canned sardine lot issued and a former sardine cannery on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sardine" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and abdulai, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sardine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Before lobster, Maine had a thriving sardine industry. (8 words)
Barbara Zanin, Bottega Veneta’s first director of craft and heritage, with a Sardine bag. (15 words)
Ben returned to his hometown of Looe to open The Sardine Factory Restaurant in July 2018. (16 words)
The dog beach will most likely be opened in a section of Manilva’s Playa de las Arenas, an 850-metre long beach just south of Sardine Cove on the southern Costa del Soll, the City Council wrote on Facebook. (40 words)
But I don’t see why people living in a Nashville suburb should not be allowed to return to their jobs because people like me choose to live, travel and work in urban sardine cans. (35 words)
It also includes the resurfacing of Robinsonville and Sardine roads (County Road 27) from Butler Street to Foshee Road (County Road 18), as well as a new surface for Foshee Road, from Sardine Road. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
It also includes the resurfacing of Robinsonville and Sardine roads (County Road 27) from Butler Street to Foshee Road (County Road 18), as well as a new surface for Foshee Road, from Sardine Road.
Today soldiers deploy to global hotspots in hours on aircraft, not days or weeks at sea on crowded floating sardine cans.
Barbara Zanin, Bottega Veneta’s first director of craft and heritage, with a Sardine bag.
Before lobster, Maine had a thriving sardine industry.
Ben returned to his hometown of Looe to open The Sardine Factory Restaurant in July 2018.
In addition to the above, Nigerians also eat their bread with butter, peanut butter or sardine.
Looking ahead, sustainable management practices are essential to ensure the long-term health of Morocco’s sardine populations and the fishing industry as a whole.
Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan, for his part, made sure to personally experience the sardine run during a dive last May 5, 2024.
The brand performed well in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, powered by handbags, including the hugely popular Sardine style.
The dog beach will most likely be opened in a section of Manilva’s Playa de las Arenas, an 850-metre long beach just south of Sardine Cove on the southern Costa del Soll, the City Council wrote on Facebook.
The secretary is Petra Pompey; treasurer, Leroy Rose Jr; assistant secretary/treasurer, Alicia Sardine and public relations officer, Duane Jack.
But I don’t see why people living in a Nashville suburb should not be allowed to return to their jobs because people like me choose to live, travel and work in urban sardine cans.
Commenting on Monday, Noel McDonogh, pilot at World of Wings Flight School, who has been busy taking magnificent aerial shots of the Sardine Run activity.
Lorenzo Donnoli, who days later organized a Sardine rally in another city of the region, Ferrara, told NPR the movement's name symbolizes civil society's strength in numbers.
Monterey Bay Aquarium: The Monterey Bay Aquarium, housed in a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row, is a non-profit dedicated to marine conservation and home to over 35,000 creatures.
The health office said that the sample was taken from a canned sardine lot issued by the company in October 2018.
This migration is associated with one of their primary prey, the sardines, which migrate to KwaZulu-Natal during the famous annual ‘sardine run’.
You are on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley at Bar Sardine, the wine bar that pops up at Bartavelle, and that recently added Tuesday evenings to its Friday night repertoire.
Despite the fact that the sardine population is far from healthy, and feasting these days centres on pockets of baitfish, it’s still a huge draw.
His snacks don't appear to be so extravagant and will often take a sardine and simply have it on a slice of bread.
Common combinations with sardine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: