cockle

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

Shell Beach is made up of billions of shells, specifically cockle shells that breed unchecked due to the high salinity of the water and the lack of predators able to survive in all that salt.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2017

It was their gangmaster, however, and a wider web of criminals, that truly profited while paying scant regard to the cockle pickers' safety on the sands.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2014

Hygienic pilgrim that she is, she came equipped not with cockle shells and sandal shoon, but with sleeping bags, coffee, and cereals.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee