cockle

Example Sentences

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Scallop on a cauliflower purée bed and cockle popcorn and chorizo crumb.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 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

“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber 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

And again Speusippus enumerates separately in regular order the cockle, the periwinkle, the mussel, the pinna, the solens; and in another place he speaks of oysters and limpets.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us