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How to use herrings in a sentence

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Added to this are all the expected red herrings, betrayals, and double-crosses.
In the next few decades these kippers almost completely took over the market from the old salty red herrings.
The weird narrative developments are beginning to feel less like clues and more like red herrings.
Obviously, the old murder-mystery impetus is there, and the red herrings and shock revelations are being doled out as standard.
It is a quest for the truth that drops vital clues and red herrings along the way.
Many academics will talk about productivity and value, and profitability, but these issues are red herrings.
Most of the film is spent working very hard to build suspense and distract the audience with red herrings that stop being effective early on.
There are few red herrings to distract you from the inexorable march of the plot.
In fact, the narrative is full of loose ends and red herrings, and the episodic writing frequently loses momentum.
Duplicities and red herrings pile up, augmented by the film's reinforcing structures of uncertainty, making for a daunting epistemological game.
The red herrings don't seem as cheap as they often do in murder mysteries, and Jerry is far from the infallible, all-knowing investigator.
Groups such as silversides, herrings and anchovies often congregate in feeding shoals numbering in the millions.
Like anchovies and herrings, they are small, primitive fish belonging to the group known as clupeoids.
Gram for gram I ate more smoked salmon than almost anything else, hotly followed by rollmop herrings at 7.3kg.
This consists of killifishes, herrings, sardines, gobies, silversides, anchovies small mullets, and lizardfishes to name a few.
During Lent, when meat was not eaten, they sold salt herrings and saltwater fish.
I'm probably getting paranoid, but are BBC employees trying to throw us off the scent by posting red herrings on these sorts of boards?
The two largest and most important of the herrings were probably blueback herring and hickory shad.
Unlike soused herring, pickled herrings are raw when put into the vinegar and pickling spices.
He must have loads of hilarious anecdotes about pickled herrings and jellied eels.
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Examples from Classical Literature
One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.
And tell me, ye sons of shotten herrings, wasn't it worth more to save him than the dirty silver?
Cran, kran, n. a measure of capacity in Scotland for herrings when just taken out of the net.
And Manxman or no Manxman, what for should he turn up his nose at herrings same as these?
Norfolk is just endurable in October, when game and 'longshore herrings are in.
On the English transporter we were pressed and packed like salted herrings.
It smells of herrings and small beer, and they get weary of waiting.
New series THE KILLING Thur C4 9pm This US crime drama keeps viewers on tenterhooks with multiple cliffhangers and red herrings.
That is full of old armour, and dried herrings, and stockfish.
Occasionally, salted meats or stockfish were substituted for the herrings.
The Manx fishermen have some curious sayings about herrings.
The novel moves ahead straightforwardly, and the mystery unfolds so that it comes as no surprise when the killer is disclosed, but not before red herrings are introduced.
For, coz, since all thoughts are things, you have but to think a pair of herrings, and then conjure up a pottle of milk wherewith to wash them down.
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