Sentence examples for old herring from inspiring English sources

Hulls of old herring boats, loaded up with rock, had been positioned there to anchor new ground filled in around them.

A fine, oily mist settled across the deck from the breath of the whales, coating everything in a frieze of warm, slippery droplets that stank of old herring and krill".

Not only do you have to hurry to eat her, she's trouble: shad is the boniest fish in the river; she's tricky to cook and, what's more, she's only a big old herring.

Vismarkt's transformation from eyesore to cafe quarter has been ratified with the opening of two hotels: a discreet Novotel (+15 404 950, accorhotels.com, doubles from €59) on one side of the Dijle, and the Hotel Vé (+15 200 755, hotelve.com, doubles from €98), a plush designer billet in an old herring smokery, on the other.

The museum is housed in an old herring-smoking factory and the pungent tang of smoked fish still haunts the building.

Nein, it stinks like day-old herring.

Like Hansel and Gretel following a trail of bread crumbs, or children of the Grand Concourse heading home for their mother's chicken soup, the 3-year-old herring had sniffed their way back.

The catfish case also provoked an unexpected reaction farther north, in the 125-year-old herring-canning industry of Maine.

Yes, that old red herring.

Its defenders trot out the old red herring that what's needed is an improvement in mental health services.

Those who ask, "Should Scott be in the Hall of Fame simply because he was the first consistently top-running Black driver in NASCAR?" are raising the old red herring which claims racism is over in America.