noun

• 1A young pilchard or other young or small herring-like fish.

  ‘Fish high in EPA and DHA include salmon, mackerel, sardines, herring, anchovies, rainbow trout, bluefish and white albacore tuna canned in water.’

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  • ‘Salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines, pilchards and fresh tuna are the best source of Omega 3 which is rich in Eicosapentaenoic acid.’
  • ‘Salmon, tuna, swordfish, mackerel, sardines, anchovies pompano, bluefish - they're forgiving in the kitchen and big enough to take on some bigger beers.’
  • ‘Omega three fatty acids are found in greatest amounts in fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines, and whitefish.’
  • ‘Fish oil supplements are dietary supplements that contain oil from cold-water fish, such as mackerel, salmon, black cod, albacore tuna, sardines, and herring.’
  • ‘Ideal choices include wild salmon, albacore tuna, sardines, herring, and mackerel; these should come from waters that have relatively low mercury content.’
  • ‘Oily fish such as herring, kippers, mackerel, pilchards, salmon, sardines and trout, contain oils that can lessen the risk of thrombosis.’
  • ‘Sources of DHA include, salmon, halibut, mackerel, sardines and herring.’
  • ‘Opt for oily fish such as salmon, sardines, herring and mackerel; and on days that you don't have fish, take a fish oil supplement.’
  • ‘The healthy fats found in oily fish such as salmon, trout, mackerel, herring and sardines appear to help raise HDL levels.’
  • ‘These are the fatty acids in fish, like salmon, sardines, herring, mackerel.’
  • ‘Decent dietary sources of vitamin D to include in the diet include kippers, mackerel, sardines and salmon.’
  • ‘However, if the diet is extremely rich in fish oils, for example, herring, mackerel, sardines and sprats, it may not be necessary to take hemp oil as well.’
  • ‘Eating at least three servings a week of fish such as salmon, sardines, mackerel and tuna is a good start.’
  • ‘Dietary sources include eggs, fatty fish such as mackerel, sardines and tuna, vitamin D-fortified foods and vitamin D supplements.’
  • ‘Other commonly eaten seafoods include sardines, salmon, sole, sea bass, and hake, as well as eel, squid, octopus, and lamprey.’
  • ‘Legered sea baits are proving effective with herring, mackerel, sardine and smelt all worth a try.’
  • ‘Reducing the ponzu and sesame makes the sardines taste less like herring from Russ & Daughters.’
  • ‘After the first planting in the Sacramento, the California commissioners noted that, although there were no shad proper on the Pacific coast, native herring, sardine, and anchovy were of the same family.’
  • ‘Among the other seafood dishes, we liked the silvery appetizer of pickled sardines and the house lobster chowder, which is peach-colored and stocked with bluefoot mushrooms and squares of smoky bacon.’

• 2sardinesBritish treated as singular A children's game based on hide-and-seek, in which one child hides and the other children, as they find the hider, join him or her in the hiding place until just one child remains.

  ‘Leah, Jeremy, Demi, and Wesley were playing a game of sardines, a variation of hide-and-seek, in the orchard.’

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  • ‘Or discover where Mrs Blair likes to hide when she plays sardines?’
  • ‘Not much later the whole group played a gigantic game of sardines throughout the church.’
  • ‘We went to a stately home in Cheshire so they could have a holiday and, on the last night, we played sardines.’

verb

• Pack closely together.

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  • ‘we sardined our dismantled bikes into the boot’
  • ‘Without the usual record business hangers-on to chatter over the music, it was an intense experience being sardined with 200 earnest fans all trying to digest and memorise 90 minutes of new music.’
  • ‘Though I'm sardined with card-carrying IFSA members, they're not much different.’
  • ‘Fast forward to Scarlett O'Hara clutching the bedpost as she was sardined into her stays.’
  • ‘With little thought for comfort or safety, he and the inventor of the bathysphere, sardined themselves into a five-foot-diameter steel ball, and had themselves lowered on a cable deep into the Atlantic Ocean.’
  • ‘More often, the underground traffic jam gnarls, and her overcrowded car will be filled with grouchy commuters, sardined shoulder-to-shoulder, sweaty and cramped, for almost an hour.’
  • ‘On the way back, we were sardined between the copious amounts of solos in front of and behind us.’
  • ‘I don't know where someone sardined on the 8:30 tube is supposed to put the three papers they're not reading.’
  • ‘But from where I stood, 10 yards from the man himself, sardined among the thousands of voters who had relinquished their Saturday to listen to the ideas of their potential president, it was raw, it was real, and it was riveting.’
  • ‘My friends and I often complain about how Vancouver is filled with snobby cliques who have no time for strangers, but maybe that's a natural reaction for people sardined into a city with 550,000 others.’
  • ‘He will squint at the Tories sardined into the benches opposite, put his thumb to his nose, wiggle his fingers and, with a schoolboy bray, say: ‘Na-na-na-na-naaa’.’
  • ‘We negotiated a ride with a well-connected local, sardined into the back of his jeep, and he drove us straight past every dusty roadblock with a grin and a wave.’
  • ‘It was wonderful to see so many people sardined into Garema Place, getting all passionate and shouty.’
  • ‘This news reaches me via a tall man in a fleece, whose long neck allows him to see over before people sardined against the barrier in front.’
  • ‘I can't imagine they could ever feel as sardined as the Empire State Building's platforms.’
  • ‘The other two boys slouched against the wall, long legs dangling, looking incredibly crowded, broad shoulders nearly brushing, limbs and bodies crammed, cramped, sardined on the little bed.’

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