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

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

Twenty-three cockle pickers, aged between 18 and 45, had died and Mr Roberts said the sole survivor was "incredibly lucky".

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2015

So-called leather-boards are unsuitable, for, in spite of great toughness and pliancy, they are certain to cockle and always remain spongy.

From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul