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

“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

The bay, where 23 Chinese cockle pickers died in 2004, is notorious for quicksand, fast-rising tides, swirling currents and deep tidal channels.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2021

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