Sentence example with the word 'sprat'

sprat

Definition n. small fatty European fish

Last update: August 2, 2015


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Laristan is famous for the condiment called mahiabeh (fish-jelly), a compound of pounded small sprat-like fish, salt, mustard, nutmeg, cloves and other spices, used as a relish with nearly all foods.   [Please select]

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Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean; And so, betwixt them both, you see, They licked the platter clean.   [Please select]

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All round he is a whale for theory and a sprat for practice--but he looks quite capable of both at crime.   [Please select]

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Another Ceylon fish of the same group, a Clupea, is known as the "poisonous sprat;" the bonito (_Thynnus affinis_, Cang.)   [Please select]

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Sprat, the servile Bishop of Rochester, sent him his resignation as one of the Lord Commissioners.   [Please select]

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But here again, Sprat records the invention of a tipping-bucket gauge by Wren before 1667.   [Please select]

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Butler, Sprat, and Clifford, the Master of Charterhouse, are said to be co-authors.   [Please select]

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Jack Sprat would eat no fat, His wife would eat no lean; Now was not this a pretty trick To make the platter clean.   [Please select]

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Dot, on the other hand, was equally averse from leaving what she was about till it was finished, so they suited each other like Jack Sprat and his wife.   [Please select]

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