Synonym: Clupea harangus. Similar words: erring, unerring, derring-do, herringbone, red herring, referring, transferring, lactoferrin. Meaning: ['herɪŋ] 
n. 1. valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled 2. commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific.
n. 1. valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled 2. commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific. 
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1 We lose in hake, but gain in herring. 
2 Neither fish nor good red herring.
3 He fished up a big herring.
4 The young of some kinds of herring are canned as sardines.
5 Fewer herring than usual have been landed this year.
6 He deliberately threw a red herring into the conversation.
7 Herring is the poor man's salmon.
8 Smoked herring is a local delicacy.
9 Thousands of herring and crab are washed up on the beaches during every storm.
10 Soft herring roe has a delicious, creamy texture.
11 She served me bread, butter, cheese, herring, and tea.
12 Female speaker I think it's a red herring.
13 According to Mattel, antitrust issues were a red herring.
14 Those herring fishing days are gone.
15 The holocaust is an immense and vile red herring.
16 Meg's determination not to see her; her red herring about the mysterious proposal of marriage.
17 The oily fish, like mackerel and herring,[www.Sentencedict.com] are not generally very popular.
18 A few dozen herring here or there; nobody troubled: every child went home with a few dozen herring on a string.
19 One issue between these parties was whether the herring meal supplied corresponded with the description.
20 Deputy City Manager Bruce Herring said the city is negotiating to acquire land for those two sites.
21 Herring, 55,(sentencedict.com) is a former drug user who started the foundation in San Jose in 1980.
22 Glaucous extremely variable in size, from Herring to Great Black-back.
23 What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.
24 As Dr Smith left he said that the inquiry was something of a red herring.
25 Look, the situation in French agriculture is just a red herring. We're here to discuss the situation in this country.
26 But more than that, all the goods, and especially the innumerable varieties of herring, have gone upmarket.
27 The final straw came in 1976 when Gregg testified against his personal pusher Scooter Herring, in return for amnesty.
28 I., resident, as he sifted through a group of dead herring and scat on East Matunuck Beach.
29 They called it smoked salmon and I immediately concluded it was some sort of rich man's herring.
30 There was a seal there in some water, a great herring gull with a damaged foot, and other creatures.
More similar words: erring, unerring, derring-do, herringbone, red herring, referring, transferring, lactoferrin, overriding, terrifying, earring, warring, jarring, barring, purring, stirring, sparring, shirring, starring, recurring, porringer, occurring, concurring, concurring opinion, terrify, terrier, merrily, overripe, terribly, override.