Example sentences for: herring

How can you use “herring” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is not easy to distinguish between clichés and what linguists call collocations--that is, collections of words that, while not unanalyzable idioms per se (like red herring, tall order , or take off in the sense of `satirize'), nonetheless seem to fall together with great frequency.

  • In 1323 Amstelredamme became a toll-free port for beer, and once a method of preserving herring had been perfected in the late 14th century, the town also had a product with a high profit margin and began exporting fish around Europe.

  • The anadromous herring return each spring and course up the streams to spawn, streams such as Buckeye Brook in Charlestown.

  • "Little Herring" is a great nickname.

  • How about Judith "Little Herring" Shulevitz?


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