like sardines
Example Sentences
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"If Ebola comes, we'll be wiped out as we're packed like sardines," Dorcas Mapenzi said at the Kingonze camp on the outskirts of Bunia, the provincial capital.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
With 32 men in a boat designed for 25, Short recalled, “it was like sardines in a tin.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Victoria's diet included cod liver oil, lard, salmon oil and oily fish like sardines, mackerel and salmon.
From BBC ● May 20, 2025
The bloom currently wreaking havoc off the coast produces a neurotoxin called domoic acid, which accumulates in small fish like sardines and anchovies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
Our whole family sleeps together lined up like sardines under a big mosquito net in the house.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
