sardine
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They’re each playing tiny instruments — one a half-open sardine can, another a stringed matchbook.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
“Better than being an old sardine tin with a few fins left in it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Built for a housing association, it was known to taxi drivers as the sardine can, and both architects and their families took flats there.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
They attributed the first period of weight loss to greater numbers of Japanese sardine, which increased competition with other species for food.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024
Christopher gave the griffin a sardine; the creature swallowed it whole, trying to take his fingers with it.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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