Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "sardines"

Lexicographically close words:
sarcophagi; sarcophagus; sarcoptic; sarcous; sardine; sardonic; sardonically; sardonyx; sare; sarea
  1. Then add the sardines and eggs slightly beaten.

  2. Early in the war a Norwegian packer, who had not had much demand for his sardines in Germany, put the picture of Hindenhurg on the tins and christened them the "Hindenburg Sardines.

  3. Bone sardines and mash them to a paste with lemon juice or oil and spread on thinly sliced bread.

  4. Mix ground yolks of five hard boiled eggs with three boned sardines or anchovies, mashed, two small pickles or as many capers chopped, one teaspoon of butter.

  5. The snatching of the dinner from his very mouth, as it were, and the substitution of a bread-and-cheese and sardines menu had brought him to the frame of mind when men turn and rend their nearest and dearest.

  6. He appealed to me to endorse his view that there was a tin of sardines and part of a cold fowl and plenty of bread and cheese.

  7. Sardines is a bit orf, the 'am is tainted, an' fruit is extra.

  8. There are sardines and sardines; let us be thankful they are not all Spanish sardines!

  9. The mixture was hardly a good one to sleep upon, but the sardines of Jean Peneau and the stout of Messrs Guinness were the invariable concomitants to a Zeppelin raid if the Mariner was anywhere in the neighbourhood.

  10. We can't bother about cooking to-day, and sardines want a little condiment.

  11. He had placed on the deck the can of spirit and the tin of sardines while he was speaking, then tied the dinghy astern and jumped aboard.

  12. Solid," was his reply, given with an emphasis that conveyed the impression of sardines in a box.

  13. Cape Finisterre was there, with its shoals of sardines and its impotent conclusion of a name, as if it had been the end of the world indeed!

  14. The sardines were now so loose in their partially emptied box that they could wriggle and even change positions if they liked.

  15. They were crowded almost as closely together in the lift as sardines in a box, and it was impossible not to answer.

  16. When at ten o'clock at night the sergeant inspected the prison and the cells were opened, I saw how the men lay huddled together on the wooden benches, man to man, like sardines packed in a tin.

  17. If the sardines take to the bait, one soon sees the water on either side of the vessel white and gray with the scales of the fish.

  18. They cook the sardines on iron grills, and a mixed smell of sausages, sardines, and chestnuts filled the air.

  19. Only the smell of the sardines had been left behind.

  20. But before even the sardines are unloaded the nets are taken down, bundles of blue net and brown corks, and promptly carried off home to be dried.

  21. Towards the month of June the sardines arrive in great shoals on the coast of Brittany.

  22. When the sardines have been unloaded from the ships, they are brought to the large warehouses on the quay and submitted to the various processes of cleaning and drying.

  23. Fried sardines were sold with long rolls of bread; also sausages.

  24. Not long ago the sardines forsook Douarnenez, and great was the desolation and despair which settled upon the people.

  25. During March and April the sardines appear on the coasts of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean; they pass through the Straits of Gibraltar, skirting Spain and Portugal; they reach France in May.

  26. The sardines are tumbled into the bottom of the boat, and sprinkled with salt.

  27. After the first haul the fishermen have some idea of the dimensions of the fish, and adjust the mesh of their nets,--for the sardines vary in size from one day to another according to the shoals on which the fishermen chance.

  28. I've sardines and pickles too, My aim is always to please you.

  29. You vary in that respect as much as sardines in a can!

  30. The rest of us took turns with the natives below, lying packed between them, much as sardines nestle in a can, wondering whether the famous Black Hole of Calcutta was really such a record-breaker as they say.

  31. There are several species of sardines belonging to the herring family (Clupeidae).

  32. The Spanish mackerel is gregarious and migratory, swimming in large schools, and feeding at the surface on pilchards, anchovies, and sardines in Florida, and on silversides and menhaden in northern waters.

  33. I have taken it with bone and block-tin squids, trolling from a yacht, and also from an anchored boat with rod and line, by casting mullet or sardines for bait.

  34. Sardines made to a paste with lemon-juice.

  35. Arrange the sardines on toasted strips of brown bread, pour the sauce over, and serve.

  36. XXV Rub boned and skinned sardines to a paste with butter and the yolks of hard-boiled eggs, seasoning with chopped pickle and parsley, lemon-juice, and mustard.

  37. Skin and bone the sardines and anchovies, break into bits, and mix them with the vegetable.

  38. Beat six or seven eggs thoroughly and mix with the sardines before cooking.

  39. The sardines are taken in large seine nets, one side floating with corks on the surface of the water, the other falling vertically.

  40. Quantities of turbot, also reared for sale, were in one of the cisterns, darting with the greatest rapidity in the water when the keeper threw in pieces of sardines for them to eat.

  41. The sardines are next packed in tin boxes, cold oil poured over them, and the boxes soldered down.

  42. He appealed to me to indorse his view that there was a tin of sardines and part of a cold fowl and plenty of bread and cheese.

  43. We bought a leg of mutton and a tongue and sardines and pineapple chunks and potted meat and many other noble things, and had a perfect banquet.

  44. A box of sardines between ten of us was our dinner, and the intense cold debarred us from the sleep that would have consoled us for our missing meal.

  45. One thing is very noticeable in these country stores, the certainty of finding a great stock of sardines in bright tin boxes.

  46. Sardines One of the players in the group hides, while the other players seek to find him.

  47. I had the pleasure of talking to a mother and her daughter and they told me they had sold out everything they had to the boys with the exception of some salmon and sardines on which they were living--salmon for dinner and sardines for supper.

  48. Yesterday there had been sardines and shaving soap and tin watches.

  49. Stir the sauce until it is quite thick, then serve the sardines on the bread with the sauce poured over them.

  50. Have ready a box of sardines, drained, broiled carefully and laid on the untoasted side of bread toasted on one side; pour the rarebit over the sardines and serve at once.

  51. Skin and bone three sardines and pound them to a pulp; sift the cooked yolks of three eggs and add to the pulp; work until smooth, then add to one cup of mayonnaise dressing.

  52. Lay the sardines upon soft paper, that they may be freed from oil.

  53. Remove the skins and tails from about a dozen sardines and heat them in the oven.

  54. He drank the bottle of beer and ate the sardines and biscuit, never troubling himself whence they had come; and while Salesa waited and waited with a suffocating heart, he looked at dead fish through bits of glass.

  55. Here he unpacked his things, and arranged a place for Billy Hindoo, and another place, open at the sides, where at a table he was daily served with sardines and bottled beer.

  56. The steward passed round sardines and buttered biscuit, and I recollect the Chinaman wolfing his right out of the can and tipping it cornerwise to drink the ile.

  57. I answered him with a can of sardines and some pilot break, which he went out and wolfed right there on the front stoop, and then came back wanting to know where was the cart and what was he to do?

  58. The next day Billy Hindoo came back, but Professor No No repelled him with a stick, having counted the beer and the sardines and the biscuit, and found many missing.

  59. She carried the white man's packages when he went abroad, his photograph box and all manner of apparatus and tools, and the bottle of beer and the sardines for his well-being, never heeding the sun nor the fiery sand.

  60. Then, as she had so often watched Billy Hindoo from a distance, she spread the table with a clean cloth, and on it she placed a bottle of beer and a tin of sardines under a wire netting and three ship's biscuits in a row.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sardines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.