Sentence examples for dead mackerel from inspiring English sources
"My girlfriend was modelling, and when she walked down the runway she had a tree branch coming out of her head and she was waving a dead mackerel.
He was remembering seeing the band play in the late '60s, and he said, approvingly, that hearing Keith Richards's guitar sound back then felt like being hit with a dead mackerel.
"When a press like ours can publish a roaring best seller," Mr. Rosenthal said in 1986, "it helps all university presses, and it increases the bookstores' recognition that we are not only handing out dead mackerel".
But come spring in northern Westchester, too many of them begin with teenage knuckleheads and a 12-pack of Coors and end up with a baseball bat, a 2 a.m. joyride and someone's mailbox lying on the ground like a dead mackerel.
Truman was as bland as a dead mackerel.
He held special disregard for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), whom he once likened to a "dead mackerel in the moonlight -- it both shines and stinks".
Proponents of the Senate bill say Mr. Sessions's dead-mackerel strategy will not work this time.
In 2006, the dead-mackerel theory played out for the first time as Mr. Sessions helped churn an immigration bill written by the Capitol Hill titans Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and John McCain of Arizona into Senate chum.
It had previously been reported that the dead fish included mackerel, but Prof Heather Koldewey, head of marine and freshwater conservation programmes at the Zoological Society of London, confirmed the fish were sardines after visiting the site on Monday.
"Right now, we're deader than a mackerel," said William G. McKinney, the owner of Bradley's Military Supply, just outside the main gate.
