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
More recently, treating it using a combination of compost, limestone and cockle shells has been more effective.
From BBC • May 2, 2018
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
It knows too much to risk having its radula, or tongue, nipped off by putting it between the partly-open valves of the dying cockle.
From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by Moss, E. G. B.
