Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or (vern)(taxlink) (syn. (taxlink)). The (vern)(taxlink) (syn. (taxlink)) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the (vern) and of the menhaden.
Six-foot- four McMichael (a past master at the art of sardining) not only crammed enough clothes for the trip into the mighty midget, but carried a full set of golf clubs and a banjo, as well!
1986, The New Yorker - Volumen 62,
Would it be unbearably elitist to suggest that they would be more enjoyable still if the director removed a row or two of chairs, instead of sardining as many listeners as possible into the intimate music room?
2007, Julie Kavanagh, Nureyev: The Life
There were already six members of the Nureyev family living in a room sixteen meters square, the children sardined on one mattress on the floor, their parents separated by only a curtain.
Les sardines sont ailleurs l'aliment du peuple ; celles que nous prenons aux environs de Phalère mériteraient d'être servies à la table des dieux, surtout quand on ne les laisse qu'un instant dans l'huile.
: The pilchards taken in other countries are the food of the common people ; those we catch in the vicinity of Phalerum are worthly of the table of the gods, especially when left to steep only for a moment in boiling oil.