Sentence examples for sprats- from inspiring English sources

Stafford Scott, a longstanding community activist in Tottenham, said of the tactics of Trident: "They allow sharks to have guns in our community, and when the sharks pass the guns to the sprats, they arrest the sprats and lock them up.

After dining on pints of prawns and skate in the 50s-style cafe, all benches and Formica, raid the smokehouse for eel, sprats and cod roe.

William Haseltine, the founder of Human Genome Sciences, one of the few sprats to covet whale status, describes that metamorphosis as "unbelievably hard".

Few have been more forthright in such views than Yuri Luzhkov, until recently mayor of Moscow (where he once banned fascist Latvian sprats from the city's supermarkets).

Most of the catch consists of herring, cod, and sprats followed by smaller quantities of eel, salmon, and shellfish.

Much of the catch from the Baltic is consumed domestically as a source of protein, most notably codfish and herring (sprats).

She was a rickety vessel, "as leaky as a sprat net" in the words of Sir Robert Ball, Ireland's most feted astronomer of the time.

Born in the icy headwaters of rivers on the east coast of North America, Britain, Iceland, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scandinavia and Spain, baby salmon, or parr, swim far out to sea to fatten up on herring and sprat.

The Siberian shad (Alosa saposhnikovi), the Baltic sprat (Sprattus sprattus balticus), and the Clupeonella engrauliformis all mature at two to three years of age but at lengths of 160 to 200 mm (roughly 6.25 to 8 inches), 120 to 130 mm (4.75 to 5 inches), and 85 to 100 mm (3.3 to 4 inches), respectively.

Sand eel, mackerel, and sprat are caught for the production of fish meal.

Animal life which has been affected greatly by changes in salinity includes fish species such as sturgeon, herring, pike, perch, and sprat; several species of mollusks; and a variety of other organisms including sponges.