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
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
The story of how 23 Chinese cockle pickers lost their lives in Morecambe Bay is to be made into a musical.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2016
Fish.—Fish is well represented by deviled crabs, seasoned and turned into little mounds in the center of cockle shells.
From Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions by Pierce, Paul
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