clam
Example Sentences
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The question prompts Epstein to clam up: “Send me a number to call I don’t like records of these conversations.”
The fiber comes from byssus threads produced by Pinna nobilis, a large Mediterranean clam that uses these threads to attach itself to rocks.
From Science Daily
It was far from Togbe’s, but his grandfather had been a fisherman too, and his grandmother a clam trader.
From Literature
Occasionally a herd of hippocamps would come and swim alongside the boats, or a mermaid would approach a fisherman, playing a tune on a flute made from a razor clam.
From Literature
Anyone beyond the land of candlepin bowling and cringing at red clam chowder thought they had a better shot at finishing at the bottom of the standings than reaching the Super Bowl.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
