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• Idioms such as "red herring" are listemes, as are irregular forms such as "geese".From the entry listeme
• The deliberate red herring threw me at first.From the entry throw
• A school of herring was visible on doppler.From the entry doppler
• “We are the people that pull eel grass between our teeth to eat the herring roe.”2021 March 24, “Herring integral to B.C.’s ecological health and preservation of Nuu-chah-nulth traditions”, in Toronto Star. From the entry ḥiškʷiiʔatḥ
• Those unfortunate herrings notwithstanding, other companies have found success with kosher-for-Passover bagels, pizza, croutons — and bacon.2017 April 7, Joanne Kaufman, “The Witty and Weird of Passover Products (Matzo Print Attire, No Less)”, in New York Times. From the entry facon
• Or, maybe it was a crossword puzzle with some mis-numbered clues, some Shortzian red herrings.2015 June 27, BJ Creighton, No Sanctuary, Scribl, →ISBN. From the entry Shortzian
• Baskets of herring put televisions into fishermen’s cottages and cars outside their doors.2013 August 31, Bagehot, “The parable of the Clyde”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8851. From the entry bonanza
• Germans still eat Katerfrühstück, a postbinge breakfast that usually consists of herring, pickles and goulash.2009 January 1, Claire Suddath, “Hangovers”, in Time, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2009. From the entry postbinge
• Herring, group chief investment officer overseeing Fidelity Blue Chip Growth, the largest fund on the list.2007 April 8, Tim Gray, “Yes, It’s a 7-Year Streak, but No, They’re Not Bragging”, in New York Times. From the entry midcap
• Common names for the alewife are gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, or kiack.2007, “Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)”, in Fisheries and Aquaculture—Government of Nova Scotia, retrieved 30 Nov 2011. From the entry kiack
• In England, the goyim don't know from blackbread and salt herring.1981, Maisie Mosco, From the Bitter Land, Toronto, O.N.; New York, N.Y.; London: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry blackbread
• Frozen sperm banks make it possible to improve the breed of cattle, goats, chicken, even herring.1971 January 26, Lucy Kavaler, “Sperm in the Deep‐Freeze”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry sperm bank
• In water of 5-6° C, herring hatch in about 22 days, at 11-12° C in 8–10 days.1968, R. V. Tait, F. A. Dipper, Elements of Marine Ecology, page 344. From the entry larva
• At Portavogie a few mease of herring were landed in June by some twenty-five boats.1905, Report on the Sea and Inland Fisheries of Ireland, page xviii. From the entry mease
• Even so, in Eastern Europe, the party tended to be very modest, including some herring, kichel and schnapps.2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 51. From the entry kichel
• Most people don’t make their own herring for Wigilia, but they do buy it ready-made for their celebrations, Aleksandra Burzynski said.2022 December 21, Joanne Kempinger Demski, “Polish tradition: 12 dishes of Christmas all in 1 day for Wigilia dinner”, in Herald Times…. From the entry Wigilia
• It’s a red herring to argue that “abandoning what would most help people on Earth today isn’t exactly ethically sound.”2022 September 9, Theodore Leinwand, “Neartermism and longtermism aren’t at odds”, in The Washington Post. From the entry longtermist
• Farmers used to apply them to their fields as fertilizer, and all along the coast, river herring festivals celebrated their arrival.2014 April 20, Richard Conniff, “An Evolutionary Family Drama”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry alewife
• There, we picked up some filleted herring and a loaf of Russian borodinskii bread made with rye, barley, molasses and coriander.2014 February 18, Marcia Vanderlip, “Olympic feast: A Russian (and Ukrainian) way to celebrate the athletes in Sochi”, in Columbia Daily…. From the entry borodinskii bread
• Solomon Gundy is a traditional Jamaican dish, a pâté made with smoked herring that we eat with crackers.2013, Levi Roots, Grill it with Levi: 101 Reggae Recipes for Sunshine and Soul, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry solomon gundy
• We couldn’t catch herring, but they were there.1993, James H. Barker, quoting Larry John, “Smelt Running Season, Fish Hitting: Qusiirvik, Kaugun”, in Always Getting Ready…. From the entry hooligan
• Local captains use greenies or threadfin herring primarily and catch them on gold hooks right outside the Stuart inlet.1992, M. Timothy O'Keefe, Larry Larsen, Fish & Dive Florida and the Keys: A Candid Destination Guide (Outdoor Travel Series; 3), Lakeland…. From the entry greenie
• Producers of boneless cured herring, maties, fillets, and delikatessen.1961, Fisheries Year-Book and Directory, page 249. From the entry delikatessen
• Aided by government propaganda, herring became an important British war-time food, not pickled, but 'freshed' (packed loosely in ice) and kippered.1960, Nigel Nicolson, Lord of the Isles: Lord Leverhulme of the Hebrides, page 84. From the entry fresh
• Sternberg features such delicatessen as pickled herring, chopped liver, cheese blintses, kreplach, borsht, with filled fish every Friday.1933 August 8, George Davis, “Things Change but Humans Remain as They Were Before […]”, in The Cleveland Press, number 17540, Cleveland…. From the entry blintse
• Then she declined the tempting red herring.1926, Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. From the entry red herring
• The rich of a rasher fried with a herring?1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[III]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry rasher
• Across 11 timezones, families will tuck into Olivier salad (potatoes, carrots, peas, pickled cucumbers, eggs, sausage and mayonnaise) and “herring under a fur coat”.2023 December 23, Steve Rosenberg, “Moscow is awash with tinsel and lights but ‘Christmas as usual’ is just an illusion”, in The Guardian…. From the entry Olivier salad
• Colombia is a red herring, however.2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian, London. From the entry red herring
• Yes, there’s a romance at the center of the episode, though it’s just as much of a red herring as the layers of futuristic foofaraw.2013 October 13, Erik Adams, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Lisa’s Wedding” (season six, episode 19; originally aired 3/19/1995)”…. From the entry foofaraw
• Cornish peppered mackerel, smoked haddock, Scottish herring and pearl-white skate wings are all laid on a bed of crushed ice at the fishmonger.2007, Leslie Ann Bosher, To the Manor Drawn, Murdoch Books, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry fishmonger
• The Department's main priorities have been goods sold loose — apples or herrings, to take two incompatible examples— and what are known as "catchweight" items.1977, Great Britain Parliament House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report. From the entry catchweight
• A number of the children said that they had potato for breakfast, potato and herring for dinner, potato and milk for supper.1915, Annual Report of the Local Government Board for Scotland, page 17. From the entry potato
• Flocks of herring gulls are often seen near piers and wharves where they perform a valuable service by feeding on garbage and refuse.1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 106. From the entry herring gull
• Waitrose has become the first UK supermarket to suspend the sale of mackerel because of overfishing and will start pointing customers toward herring and other species.2026 February 26, Tara Russell, “Waitrose to halt the sale of mackerel because of overfishing”, in The Guardian, page 9. From the entry mackerel
• He lookedat me fora few seconds, with eyes like those of an inquisitive owl or curious herring, then suddenly burst into a peal of rumblesome laughings.2012, Mark Evans, Bleak Expectations. From the entry rumblesome
• From where they sat on the rowing thwarts, they made blind passes with their herring rakes, bringing them up with silver asquirm on each needle-sharp tooth.1990, Arthur Mayse, chapter 12, in Handliner’s Island, Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, page 125. From the entry asquirm
• In the silvery belly scales of the herring, deposits of minute, platelike crystals lie parallel to the scales’ surface, giving a pearly gleam to the grey fish.1983, “The Colourless colours”, in Helen Varley, editor, Colour, London: Marshall Editions Limited, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry pearlescent
• The leading suspect had drawn a red herring across his tracks, for if by any chance the crown should come to light here Miss Frensham was hopelessly involved.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry on velvet

Meaning of herring

1. noun A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
2. noun Fish in the family Clupeidae.
3. noun Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

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How do you use herring in a sentence?

Herring is used as a noun. For example: “Idioms such as "red herring" are listemes, as are irregular forms such as "geese".”

What is a short sentence with herring?

“Colombia is a red herring, however.”

What does herring mean?

Herring means a type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.