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“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

She hopes new cockle research will help explain how changing ocean acidity and marine heat affect the transmission or lethal effects of the cancer, and offer methods to protect other native shellfish.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

Shell Beach is made up of billions of shells, specifically cockle shells that breed unchecked due to the high salinity of the water and the lack of predators able to survive in all that salt.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2017

Following the 2004 cockle picking tragedy in Morecambe Bay, anyone who provides workers to farms should have a licence from the Gangmasters Licensing Authority.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2015

Cock′le-hat, a hat bearing a scallop-shell, the badge of a pilgrim; Cock′le-shell, the shell of a cockle: a frail boat.—The cockles of the heart, the heart itself.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The cold-natured among us can warm their cockles with the heated steering wheel, heated front and rear seats and radiant leg warmers built into the Touring package.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The deal also benefits shellfish producers after the EU banned British fishermen from selling live mussels, oysters, clams, cockles and scallops to its member states in 2021.

From BBC ● May 19, 2025

And the vision of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought or, indeed, Elon Musk being frog-marched off to the hoosegow will warm the cockles of many a heart.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025

The team said more work is needed to understand what, if anything, the heart cockles are doing with this image projection superpower.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

It was a scene to warm the cockles of your heart.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Only a comparatively light pressure should be given, or the lining up of the headbands or back will become cockled and detached.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

By them the oarage of the wind was taught, And how the quick tail steered the cockled boat.

From Poems New and Old by John Freeman

He further carried this out afterwards in the application of the deeper coloured, and usually softer, varnishes, which when manipulated by other masters of the same school, have frizzled or cockled from some cause.

From Antonio Stradivari by Horace William Petherick

Gay writes: "Showers soon drench the camblet's cockled grain."

From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift

Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head

It is 10 years since the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy when the notorious tides and channels claimed the lives of 23 Chinese cockle workers.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2014

More in the foreground, in the same direction, there spreads a troubled cockling sea of the Great Conglomerate.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds

This makes a joint free of cockling, and when dry the inking can be completed across the joint.

From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various

I thought all this, and I believe my companions had very similar thoughts as we danced up and down on the short cockling sea.

From Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore by Gordon Browne

This turbulent sea was occasioned in part by the current; which, setting out slanting against the wind, was by it raised into short cockling seas.

From A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier