cockle
Example Sentences
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“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
“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.
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
Hygienic pilgrim that she is, she came equipped not with cockle shells and sandal shoon, but with sleeping bags, coffee, and cereals.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
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