cockle

Example Sentences

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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

“This tells us that all of those nearly identical cancers came from a single cockle in the past,” Metzger said.

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

Gangmaster Lin Liang Ren was jailed for 14 years in 2006 after being found guilty of manslaughter and helping the cockle pickers break immigration laws.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2015

Because all the powder was not burned, and grains like cockle are under the skin.

From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk