How to Use smelt in a Sentence

smelt

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• To subscribe to the Free Press for about the cost of a frozen smelt, click here.
  — Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2022
• The young bird spreads its wings, bends down, and snatches the smelt.
  — Melody Bentz, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2021
• Dozens of smelt flipped and slapped their bodies, the sound like rain on a sidewalk.
  — Ryan Knighton, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2016
• Breese puts a smelt in a hole at the end of the bamboo pole and extends the fish up to a white tern perched on a branch above her head.
  — Melody Bentz, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2021
• Breese extends the smelt toward the chick, which leans forward and swallows the fish whole.
  — Melody Bentz, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2021
• Another gateway food: the fried, crispy smelt, heads and tails and all.
  — National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
• Commercial netting with a few boats is the only way to gauge the strength of smelt runs.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Roast oily fish like smelt, sardines, fresh anchovies over the fire to bring out the right amount of brininess.
  — Ashley Mason, Bon Appetit, 25 May 2017
• So do herring and smelt, which are critical prey for salmon, as well as killer whales and many birds.
  — National Geographic, 2 June 2016
• It was considered the best way to protect salmon, striped bass and tiny smelt from fish-chomping pumps.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Decades of pumping have helped pushed smelt, Chinook salmon and other fish to the brink of extinction.
  — Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 11 Apr. 2018
• There was a recent first-person piece on the art of luring crafty little fish called smelts from the icy waters of Maine.
  — Liz Spayd, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2017
• Bogoslof’s seals eat squid and northern smoothtongue, a deep-water fish that looks like a smelt.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• My mother helps herself delicately to a bite of pea shoots, then the smelt.
  — Ling Ma, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• Then populations of eel and smelt, which feed on those creatures, crashed as well.
  — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 21 Nov. 2019
• This is a silver-colored smelt that is important food for lots of other fish and seabirds.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• Rainbow smelt, which reached Lake Michigan in 1923, was the first major exotic species to take hold.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
• State biologists have found hardly any Delta smelt in their sampling nets in the past two years.
  — Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 1 June 2018
• For the past two seasons, Icelanders have not been able to harvest capelin, a type of smelt, as their numbers plummeted.
  — Kendra Pierre-Louis, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
• Because of this, a large number of the reservoir’s walleye population has moved away from shore to follow the smelt.
  — Terry Wickstrom, The Denver Post, 22 Feb. 2017
• The pumps chomp up all manner of fish, including salmon and endangered tiny native smelt.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
• The mammals usually appeared at the Columbia's mouth to snatch smelt.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 14 July 2016
• For centuries, Tolowa people lived in balance with the elk that roamed free, the smelt that returned each summer and the thousands of Aleutian geese that once fanned across the forested coast.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• Consecutive surveys in late April and early May found no smelt at all.
  — Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 1 June 2018
• In his interview, Shota says, the rabbit, which Sara is cooking, is the main element, and the smelt is there to support it from all directions.
  — oregonlive, 7 May 2021
• All of that may change soon, since growing evidence suggests that the Delta smelt is now effectively extinct in the wild.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
• Meanwhile, halibut in these waters have declined, and smelts – an important food for seabirds – have crashed.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2019
• Bogoslof is surrounded by deep water, and its seals eat squid and northern smoothtongue, a deep-water fish that looks like a smelt.
  — Dan Joling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
• Members of the public should be prepared for this future change and identify other locations to take advantage of the smelt run.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2023
• Simultaneously in some years unusually large runs of small, oily smelt have also drawn sea lions in large numbers to Oregon.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2023

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smelt

2 of 2 verb

• In the Late Bronze Age, humans learned to smelt iron, and things haven’t been the same since.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
• Many patients were motionless in their beds in rooms that smelt of urine.
  — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• But smelting iron in the colonies destroyed business for the ironworks in England.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
• Others had tried smelting iron with coal, but Darby was the first to roast the coal before smelting.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
• When smelting silver, adding lead to the crushed ore helps concentrate the silver.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 15 May 2018
• French women smelt good, and soldiers returning from the Western Front had come to like that.
  — Matthew Sweet, The Economist, 4 Dec. 2020
• The men have been friends since high school in South Milwaukee and first smelted together in their teens.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
• The pizzas will feature proteins that aren’t usually used such as pork jowl and smelt.
  — Tanay Warerkar, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2021
• But stopping a blast furnace in the middle of smelting molten iron used to create steel could be even riskier.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• Metz said that Vista sources its copper from fabricators who buy it from the mines and smelt it into strips and ingots.
  — Aaron Smith, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• The bleak camps were built in 1999 near piles of waste from a former lead-smelting factory, and residents had raised health concerns for years.
  — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Iron that comes from meteorites has a higher nickel content than iron dug up from the ground and smelted by humans.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
• The village of Leoben has long been an industrial suburb to the nearby Vienna, smelting iron has been in the region since the 1400s.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2017
• The readings came from scrap metal that had already been compressed into cubes ready to be smelted on Sunday evening.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
• The firm was founded in 2014 to meet China’s voracious demand for the ore, from which aluminium is smelted.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
• Death metal and industrial get smelted in the band’s blast-furnace style.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• Rainbow smelt from Lake Superior should be consumed only once a month, the only species of fish in the lake to be impacted at this point.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022
• There, campers would smelt iron to make stakes, which volunteers would deliver to Ukrainian troops to use for building trenches.
  — Andrea Stanley, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2022
• In breaking his own rules, the Professor sets the groundwork for some pretty huge complications that hurt his allies smelting gold in the bank.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• During the Bronze Age, before people figured out how to smelt iron from rock, the only widely available source of iron was meteoric—hunks of it fallen from space.
  — Steven Poole, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• The free disposal process doesn’t involve smelting or crushing, but the guns rather are taken apart, with the receiver or frame being the only piece destroyed.
  — Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2024
• The bauxite mined in Guinea is shipped abroad for refining into alumina, which is in turn smelted into aluminum.
  — Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
• The actor visited Ukraine and presented the president with one of his two Oscar statues (after failing to smelt them both, as promised).
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 9 Nov. 2022
• Two thousand years ago, the Romans smelted precious ores in clay furnaces, extracting silver and belching lead into the sky.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 18 May 2018
• Thousands of years ago, when the ancient Greek and Roman empires ruled over Europe, lead was mined and smelted to produce water pipes and ship sheathing, for example.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 May 2018
• The aluminum oxide left over in the process can be recycled indefinitely, Koehler said, even re-smelted down to be used again in new canisters.
  — London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2020
• The building was designed to filter pollutants produced by smelting, the melting of rocks that separates metal from its ore.
  — Martin Schiavenato, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
• Over four years, the fire smelted an ever-purer, ever-bolder warriorhood.
  — Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• To better understand this, think of a fairy-tale kingdom where the royal alchemist succeeded in turning lead into gold, and the delighted king ordered the royal mint to smelt more coins with it.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
• Participants ate salad using biodegradable cutlery and drank seltzer from cans that could have been smelted from Guinean bauxite.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 15 June 2023

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