clam

[ US /ˈkɫæm/ ]
[ UK /klˈæm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a piece of paper money worth one dollar
  2. flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
  3. burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
VERB
  1. gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
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How To Use clam In A Sentence

  • He's still asleep, I suppose, though he often wakes me with his morning declamations. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • The first was that, though the sea was indeed rough, there was little rain, and the air lacked the clammy humidity of a thunderstorm.
  • Both the antisense drug and glibenclamide led to 75% reductions in spinal cord lesion volume six weeks after the injury, compared with sham-treated animals, the researchers reported. Social Security Reports, News and Informaion
  • And the 21m he banked off the course is certain to rocket as new sponsors clamber on board the gravy train. The Sun
  • Restrictions governing building in London were first issued by royal proclamation.
  • But this exclamation is hyperbole; we are not speaking in literal seriousness.
  • A watchdog has ruled that clamping cannot be allowed in areas where there is no obvious warning notice.
  • They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
  • Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
  • To examine possible effects of predators on clam growth, I first compared variation in clam growth rate among habitats with different predation pressure, and between predator-exclusion cages and uncaged controls.
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