cockle
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Scallop on a cauliflower purée bed and cockle popcorn and chorizo crumb.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023
“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
Because all the powder was not burned, and grains like cockle are under the skin.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The cold-natured among us can warm their cockles with the heated steering wheel, heated front and rear seats and radiant leg warmers built into the Touring package.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
And the vision of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought or, indeed, Elon Musk being frog-marched off to the hoosegow will warm the cockles of many a heart.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
To maintain this close bond, heart cockles have mastered the art of indoor gardening, directing light to their otherwise dark interiors.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
"But there's certain things we do in Wales brilliantly like cockles, oysters, lamb, chorizo and Welsh whisky - and they signposted me to dishes I could try or ingredients I could use in dishes."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023
The cockles of Billy’s heart, at any rate, were glowing coals.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
The leaves of a vellum book that have become cockled from damp or other causes may be flattened by damping them, pulling them out straight, and allowing them to dry under pressure.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
Gay writes: "Showers soon drench the camblet's cockled grain."
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
He further carried this out afterwards in the application of the deeper coloured, and usually softer, varnishes, which when manipulated by other masters of the same school, have frizzled or cockled from some cause.
From Antonio Stradivari by Horace William Petherick
Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head
Plancine's swimming eyes looked down, looked upon a litter of perished rags of paper, and, lying in the midst of the rubbish, an ancient stained and cockled miniature of a powdered Louis Seize coquette.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
It is 10 years since the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy when the notorious tides and channels claimed the lives of 23 Chinese cockle workers.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2014
Why should she pretend not to know a friend—least of all when she’d been cockling?
From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by William H. C. Groome
Will you want me, uncle? because, if not, I shall go out early with Bill Corbett cockling.
From A Chapter of Adventures by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
This makes a joint free of cockling, and when dry the inking can be completed across the joint.
From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
I thought all this, and I believe my companions had very similar thoughts as we danced up and down on the short cockling sea.
From Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore by Gordon Browne
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