cockles
- present tense form of cockle (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
In Swansea, he said he had a "really good experience" with cockles and laverbread and Welsh rarebit.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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
Then as now, the Northwest Coast, thick with fruit and fruits de mer, was a gatherer’s paradise: wild strawberries, wild blueberries, soapberries, huckleberries, thimbleberries, salmonberries; clams, cockles, mussels, oysters; flounder, hake, salmon.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
