[
UK
/spɹˈæt/
]
NOUN
- small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines
- small herring processed like a sardine
How To Use sprat In A Sentence
- Glissaundra is my godmother, bless her, and when I was a sprat she once gave me a jar filled with a powder that she said would restore things to their true forms. From The Valley Of Lost Projects: Princess Lucinda And The Missing Moon
- There were other fish swimming around among the dead sprat so there was nothing wrong with the quality of the water.
- ‘Wild puffins normally eat live whitebait, sprats and sand eels which they dive in the sea for,’ said Mrs Platts.
- Every now and then we would slip away to fish for sprats and cockabullies.
- Lud-in-the-Mist was one of my very first fantasy books read it years ago when I was but a sprat and nothing has ever quite come up to that standard. June & July Short Book Reviews
- I have used ordinary coarse fishing wagglers as bite detectors when fishing a sprat close in and believe me it catches plenty of pike.
- Mrs Spratt regrets that she is unable to attend owing to a previous engagement.
- Even Barack Obama might think that a very fat sprat to catch a rather bony mackerel. Financial Times circulation drifts in turbulent times
- The smoking of salmon, prawns and sprats is done ‘round the back’ and this is the food you should stick to here.
- It was a downcome, though, for a man who had been proud of driving behind his own horseflesh to pack in among a crowd of the Barbie sprats. The House with the Green Shutters