cockle

Example Sentences

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Scallop on a cauliflower purée bed and cockle popcorn and chorizo crumb.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

“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

He was speaking from Rio where he is installing his follow-up work, 10,000 Lives, about the world of the Chinese cockle pickers who drowned on Morecambe Bay in 2004.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2016

This is produced by a number of mussel or cockle shells tied together and shaken to a kind of tune, which is accompanied with the voice.

From The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by Jewitt, John Rodgers