conch
Example Sentences
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Hold a conch shell up to your ear and you can hear the sound of the sea.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The race starts any time from midnight to noon on race day, with one hour till race start signalled by blowing a conch.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
Officers reported finding two empty conch shells next to a pot and an active fire.
From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2023
Under the international bridge connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, with Piedras Negras, Mexico, protesters gathered at Shelby Park this month, chanting “save the river” and blowing a conch shell in a ceremony.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2023
They made an alabaster trench in his mouth, and his pink-purple lips peeled bade over them like the meat of a conch shell He had a big welt, like a scar, on his left cheek.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
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