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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In fact, Knight Gobies will eat anything from flake to lumps of sprat .
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It is a great shoal of sprats that has assembled in these inshore waters.
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Once a shoal of respectable dace are attracted in by your feeding, the sprats and minnows will be shouldered out.
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This year a mere sprat of a northern lass won my heart playing hers out on a mighty and sonorous trombone.
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Yet numerous younger sprats swam with a gang too.