Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a sardine or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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sardine +‎ -like

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Examples

  • A grunion is a small, sardinelike fish that lays its eggs on dry sand on certain full moon cycles each year.

    Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010

  • People drank Primus beer or banana juice, and everyone ate sardinelike fish called sambassa.

    Running Scared 2008

  • There are two reasons why 11-year-old Chikumbutso Zuze never sees his three sisters, why he seldom has a full belly, why he sleeps packed sardinelike with six cousins on the dirt floor of his aunt's thatched mud hut.

    African Family Structures Steve Sailer 2005

  • There are two reasons why 11-year-old Chikumbutso Zuze never sees his three sisters, why he seldom has a full belly, why he sleeps packed sardinelike with six cousins on the dirt floor of his aunt's thatched mud hut.

    Archive 2005-02-20 Steve Sailer 2005

  • The good news for riders is that the sardinelike conditions may soon be coming to an end: subway officials have pledged to run more L trains on the weekends, starting in the summer of 2012, according to State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan whose office requested the study.

    NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM 2011

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