Example Sentences

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“This is a brachiopod,” one expert told Michael Lloyd, 8, of Mantua, describing a clamlike mollusk.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2016

Then we might have been able to see them still jetting through the ocean, rather than being stuck with more mundane long-term marine survivors such as the clamlike brachiopods and frond-shaped crinoids.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2013

Brachiopods, clamlike bivalves of prehistoric times, were one of the most -------forms of life on the Earth: more than 30,000 species have been -------from fossil records.

From SAT Tests

Lunokhod is powered by solar cells that are apparently charged when it opens its clamlike lid to sunlight.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was shaken, and the clamlike stolidity which he had assumed as protection gave way.

From Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)