clam

Example Sentences

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“I typically just use cream and let that reduce with the clam stock I make, which has carrots, celery and leeks.”

From Salon

When you rolled over, you could watch sea horses and shells and the open jaws of the giant clams with polka-dot fish racing through them.

From Literature

The question prompts Epstein to clam up: “Send me a number to call I don’t like records of these conversations.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The fiber comes from byssus threads produced by Pinna nobilis, a large Mediterranean clam that uses these threads to attach itself to rocks.

From Science Daily

It was far from Togbe’s, but his grandfather had been a fisherman too, and his grandmother a clam trader.

From Literature