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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

She hopes new cockle research will help explain how changing ocean acidity and marine heat affect the transmission or lethal effects of the cancer, and offer methods to protect other native shellfish.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

The bay, where 23 Chinese cockle pickers died in 2004, is notorious for quicksand, fast-rising tides, swirling currents and deep tidal channels.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021

Silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all of a row.

From The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes by Various

She was also the subject of a traditional folk song, which tells the story of a fishmongers' daughter who sold cockles and mussels from a wheelbarrow.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025

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

The team said more work is needed to understand what, if anything, the heart cockles are doing with this image projection superpower.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

Large cockles can filter three liters per hour and this concentrating effect was so powerful that we found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the cockles even when we couldn't detect them in water samples.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023

It was a scene to warm the cockles of your heart.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.

But even laying aside the question of the coagulation of the albumen, the paper, unless it is ironed, remains so "cockled up," that it is not only unsightly, but very difficult to use.

From Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Only a comparatively light pressure should be given, or the lining up of the headbands or back will become cockled and detached.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel

Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost.

From The Commission in Lunacy by Balzac, Honoré de

Gay writes: "Showers soon drench the camblet's cockled grain."

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

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

Here was another hair's breadth escape; for it was nearly high water, and there ran a short cockling sea, which if the ship had struck, must very soon have bulged her.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis, Andrew

The book may now be shut up if a waterproof sheet is put at each end to prevent the damp of the cover from cockling the paper.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel

More in the foreground, in the same direction, there spreads a troubled cockling sea of the Great Conglomerate.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

This turbulent sea was occasioned in part by the current; which, setting out slanting against the wind, was by it raised into short cockling seas.

From A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William