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.
When inserting the needle into the clamp, push it up as far as it will go and tighten the clamp screw firmly with the screwdriver.
The male scorpion fly possesses what is called a notal organ, a clamp behind its wings.
Parliament and public greeted this imperial retreat with a fanfare of acclamation.
However, the leats were not originally built to supply mills with power, but were excavated for the draining and reclamation of land between the city wall and the Exe.
Maggie darted to them and in a quick movement peeled off the hand clamped on his arm. Burning Bright
Relying on their well-established formula of eerie melodies, pastoral soundscapes, babbling children and rhythmic clamour, their sophomore effort rings true.
It's not often that you clamour to hear about an actor's childhood. Times, Sunday Times
The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
The university is clamping down on media access during his summer booster club tour, and publicity flacks are shielding the most available man in college football.
She belongs to a family descended from free Blacks those released from slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
In his weekly post, Williamson wrote that "the killing of Jesus was truly 'deicide' " and that "only the Jews leaders and people were the prime agents of the deicide because it is obvious from the gospels that the gentile most involved, Pontius Pilate, … would never have condemned Jesus to death had not the Jewish leaders roused the Jewish people to clamour for his crucifixion. Bishop's blog raises tensions between Jews and the Vatican
Shrimp, octopus, clam, cuttlefish and crabmeat cooked with tomato sauce and Black Forest apple tea.
The words, the thoughts, came fully formed into his mind through a kind of clammy telepathy. The Day of the Dissonance
There were mussels and abalones and clams and rock-oysters, and great ocean-crabs that were thrown upon the beaches in stormy weather. CHAPTER XVIII
By resorting to nonwar means of achieving his objectives, he would earn worldwide acclamation and gratitude by letting peace prevail, following the wise old saying, "Discretion is the better part of valor. Mail Call: Show Us The Proof
A pipe clamp is really a necessary tool when using screws with roughcut lumber. Albloggerque
He fulfilled his duties conscientiously, but his support for the proclamation of the district as a city lost him his seat in 1950.
La justice italienne a à son tour passé l'éponge après avoir maintenu l'ancien militant ultra-nationaliste en prison pendant 19 ans, mais l'a remis en 2000 aux autorités turques qui le réclamaient pour purger deux peines auxquelles il avait été condamné en Turquie, l'une pour une attaque de banque commise dans les années 1970 et l'autre pour le meurtre d'un journaliste turc en 1979. belga/th Mehmet Ali Agca,Pope John Paul II's Would-Be Assassin, embraces the Catholic Faith! IMPORTANT INFO ADDED
They refused to remove a clamp from a car outside a doctor's clinic even though the owner needed to bring his son to hospital and had no money.
No doubt every cowboy car clamper is eagerly applying for one of these licences. The Sun
Then, going into one of the drawers, he took out an eyepiece fitted with a lens, a locking clamp, and a rock-hammer.
As competition from Asia increases and shareholders clamour for ever faster growth some regard the inward-looking nature of the family corporate setup as untenable.
Both men are from Brooklyn, both have children named Satchel, both are basketball fans, devout Knicks supporters, and both have made the clamorous city of New York their sound stage.
As we dip thin slices of raw geoduck into seasoned soy, the clean, fresh sweetness of the clam seems to affirm these thoughts.
He kept his hand firmly clamped on her wrist so that she would not escape him.
The music's expression ranges from declamatory to lyrical.
Step 1: For starters, you will need a few common tools that are more than likely already sitting around the garage, such as a socket wrench set, a C-clamp, a flathead screwdriver, an Allen wrench set, and an ATV stand or lift. How to Replace the Brakes on a Utility ATV
Start by attaching the flexible vent from vent-connection kit to the periscope vent, using the band clamps in the kit.
Here the interior is inlaid with millions of beautiful shells, scallops, paloudres, clams, periwinkles, mussels, oysters and rogans.
Now the first bolt of lightning stabs the earth. It is heaven's exclamation point 3.
The clam pie was hot and the beer, as promised, cold - manna and nectar after a day's hiking. AMAGANSETT
Helped by the suckers on her tentacles she can easily prise open clams and mussels that would defeat most people. Times, Sunday Times
Labour is going to learn whether or not it is possible to resist the public clamour for tax cuts and still win a general election.
In fact, students clamor for the courses - admittedly, more loudly in some regions of the country than others.
Special courts under such proclamations tried and punished those who transgressed against the orders of the military authority.
And it seems the obligatory pungent cigarette, clamped firmly in the corner of the mouth, is a necessary aid to concentration.
The axial stress in them produces a clamping force equal to the product of the proof-load stress, reduced by a design factor, and the core area of the bolt or screw.
These little people, quite recovered from their fatigue, had set about gathering checkerberries, and now came clambering to meet their play-fellows.
To depreciate ( currency, for example ) by official proclamation or by rumor.
He had already lifted the skin flap to depart, when a low exclamation brought him back to the girl's side. The Sun of the Wolf
She wrapped herself around him like a clam in formation, her body one big muscle, straining.
An uncanny silence descended on a school as pupils made a superhuman effort to clamp their lips tightly shut.
Feeding mashed carrot into a mouth clamped shut like a bulldog clip. Times, Sunday Times
Spainhower explains that the pressure of biting on even a hair-thin tippet of mono can crack a preexisting fracture line in the tooth, but more often it is pulling at leader clamped between teeth or the snapping of tooth against tooth after the mono is cut that causes the damage. Chew On This
The "hup" was rather an exclamation of necessity than of delight, inasmuch as that it was caused by Davie coming suddenly down flat on the ice in the act of vainly attempting to go leap-frog over Mivins's head. The World of Ice
I can hardly blame the engineer who designs the hydraulic dredger, nor the driller at Exxon who mines oil for his boat, nor the construction woman who paved the ramp where the clammer launched his boat this morning. Industrialism and clams
It's full of phonemes, guttural exclamations and limpid hisses.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the cries turned still more colourful and clamorous, as a kind of auditory arms race developed between the vendors.
Her appearance and skill drew forth exclamations of praise.
The seafood linguine is laden with clams, shrimp and cubes of fish, while the risotto con funghi, infused with porcini mushrooms, walks the line between soupy and solid admirably.
The restaurant serves roasted octopus, and clam and prawn risotto. Times, Sunday Times
Neil Tennant, for all his limitations, is one of the most human singers I know, and not in some Whitney / Britney sense that equates humanity with loud declamation of ersatz emotion.
In relatively primitive organisms like clams, all nerves are unmyelinated. Stem cells, Part 1, Introduction and Ethics
There was a shift in the audience as to the meaning of his sudden exclamation, especially its lack of any emotion.
By 52 you'll be begging for the clammy grip of death. The Sun
Her broom helped sweep away the clam shells discarded by scavenging racoons and the carcasses of dead mice frozen during the winter.
All princesses wishing to apply must respond to this proclamation and attend the initiation ball which is to be held in a sennight on the eve of the Festival of the Roses.
You killed him you killed him you... Through the clamor, I tried to think. SILENT JOE
Courts in Scotland have ruled it illegal to clamp a car parked on private ground and then to demand a fine.
Hosts David Asman and Liz Claman practically crowned the mayor an economic genius after he told them he's asking for wage concessions from labor groups, combining departments and trying to "disintermediate" bureaucracies. SFGate: Top News Stories
Now the first bolt of lightning stabs the earth. It is heaven's exclamation point 3.
The most dull-witted, vulgar complaint about Gay Pride parades follows the form of ‘you don't see straight people running around with nipple clamps’ or ‘my wife doesn't dress up in latex and flaunt herself in the street ’, etc. and so forth.
Also avoid raw fish, especially shellfish such as oysters and clams.
They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs.
Although clambakes are traditional in the north-east of the US, barbecues and picnics are popular elsewhere.
The courts need to clamp down harder. The Sun
Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
In places where I would be steady, she would add an exclamation point. Times, Sunday Times
Not just any old clam-diggers, mind; we're talking tuxedo pants. Times, Sunday Times
I usually paired them with clam-diggers and a draped tee, but now, adding the finishing touch to my thoroughly traditional gear, I had to confess that they actually looked very attractive. Indie Girl
We wandered down Cannery Row and sat at the quayside eating clam chowder from bread bowls.
An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time.
The attempt was well intended, but before he could clamber on board he was wet to the waist. THE MEAT
Her heart thumped and a cold clamminess filtered into every pore of her skin.
I clamber in the car and he, now used to doing so, puts the wheelchair in the back before plopping into the driver's seat.
Eager hints would become rhapsodic proclamations; backstairs whispers would be babbled aloud in the corridors of the complex.
Such preoccupations rarely seem to have troubled the solitary beings who inhabit the clamorous pages of her witty, erudite and anecdotal - if inconclusive - study.
She feels flattered by the clamour of attention, if a little bewildered. Times, Sunday Times
Cut up some pieces of plywood ahead of time to use as holding forms, and clamp every thing down.
He clambered over a wall in pitch dark last Sunday night. Times, Sunday Times
The problem with responding to every group that clamours loudly is that in election year everyone starts to clamour.
By now, a type of free-style declamation known as ‘recitative’ (literally ‘speech-song’) was being used to hurtle the drama forward.
On landing, the army hailed him as the true victor of Oran, a wave of acclamations following him as he advanced to the alcazar, where the keys of the fortress were put into his hands. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
Her appearance and skill drew forth exclamations of praise.
Without an exception these hangers-on are a shallow, mean-spirited bunch of bourgeoise no-counts, who mistake philosophical declamation for conversation and obsequiousness for love.
Without that, there is no such thing as society, merely the clamour of competing voices and the clash of conflicting wills. Times, Sunday Times
The psalmist had adapted this picture to refer to the spiritual offerings of prayer, praise and proclamation.
Found in a few different Toronto-based dollar stores (such as Dollarama, Buck or Two and Absolute Dollar), the Harvard Essentials-branded booklight clamps onto a hard- or soft-cover book to provide light when you're reading in the dark (such as when you're lying in bed and your spouse is trying to sleep). Dollar Daze: Folding Book Light for $1 | Sync Blog
Ellery wandered up and down, picking up shells and sea clams, and peering through the nets of the nearest weir at the "horsefoot crabs" and squid and flounders imprisoned in the pound. Keziah Coffin
The new concept incorporates a clamshell design.
The weekend's traffic effort from the Gardai was part of a national push to clamp down on dangerous and drunken driving.
To make sure that the formwork stays put, the company has nylon fiberglass camlock clamps that hold the boards to just about any stake.
She was also famous among friends for going into the kitchen and preparing her favourite dishes, including fried caribou or clam chowder.
It is a shame that the Canadian toponymic committee does not recognize exclamation marks as being a legitimate part of place names! VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
She used a surrogate after suffering preeclampsia with her previous pregnancies. The Sun
In any case, public clamor for inoculations might require a liberal vaccination program after an outbreak.
The thing is reduced to a cruel mockery when stores and granaries are over-gorged, while people clamor in vain for clothing and food, and drop dead within reach of these prime elements of warmth and sustentation. Black and White
Here an exclamation of "Mercy, mercy!" called the esquire's attention, and he beheld his amiable consort sinking aghast, with uplifted hands on Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
He turned his back, screwed his eyes shut and clamped his hands over his ears.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Americans who took passage on belligerent ships after such a proclamation had been issued would do so at their own risk. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
When the heart fibrillates as a result of hypothermia, the surgeon crossclamps the ascending aorta using a medium Fogarty clamp.
Their value as ornamental plants is contained in their intricately patterned and colourful foliage which ranges from jade green with cyclamen veins; chartreuse with carmine veins; and Sherwood green with silver veins.
At least everyone is clear on what an exclamation mark is for, even if they overuse it.
I was sort of wonderin 'how long he could keep this up, and what would be the finish, when from behind me I hears this spluttery line of exclamations indicatin' rage. The House of Torchy
The proclamation complained that tobacco tended to corrupt men's bodies and manners, and that to cultivate tobacco was ‘to abuse and misemploy the soil of this fruitful kingdom’.
Ce serait une déformation du terme français "haut la crèche" crèche signifie berceau parce que l'on soulevait le berceau au moment de proclamer le nom de l'enfant. Languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.
TOP British athletes face being grilled by police in a new clampdown on drug cheats. The Sun
One of the challenges of crank grinding relates to clamping the workpiece in the chuck so that the crank pin can be cylindrically ground.
The clam pizza at Zuppardi's in West Haven, Connecticut, for example, is made with just shucked clams and a hint of fresh garlic on a perfectly blistered pizza crust. Robert Rosenthal: One Woman's Disgusting Clam Is Another Man's Pleasure To Eat
He has composed a series of townships scenes in flat planes of bright and bold colours that clamour for attention.
I had never heard of it, but a little research indicated that it is traditionally served with clams in Sardinia, and can be used in shellfish broth, in soups, or like regular pasta.
He broke out in a cold sweat, feeling the trickles of perspiration run down his clammy face.
Debbie grabs Biscuit's trunk and tries to yank her free, but the raccoon's teeth refuse to unclamp. How the Rabies Epidemic Is Affecting Deer and Other Wildlife
It would not be pleasant, certainly, to sit for an hour at a big empty table, ordering dishes fit only for epicures, and then, just as the waiters bore down with the Little Neck clams, so nicely iced and so cool and bitter-looking, to have to rise and go out into the street to a _table d'hôte_ around the corner. Van Bibber and Others
His exclamation point was a 56-yard touchdown reception from Otton in the third quarter.
Banking regulators failed to clamp down until earlier this month.
He just watched her, his eyes huge and patient, his mouth clamped around a pacifier. BAD MEDICINE
Within minutes of being called the clamper arrived in a tow truck. Times, Sunday Times
Preeclampsia was linked to levels of oxygen in the blood and a protein called angiotensinogen. The Sun
And champion of them all, whether on land or in the sea, is almost certainly the giant clam.
Their day-to-day diet is a mix of worms, lugworm, white rag, smashed up shellfish like razorfish, cockles and sand clams, small crabs, shrimps and even small fish, for they, like most sea fish, are a predator in their own right.
Upon opening the door, the clatter of trays on silverware and the clamor of voices competing with one another washed over them.
Before this time letters had been used to issue public proclamations, record transactions, conduct trade, and as a vehicle for spreading news.
Clams reproduce sexually and like most mollusks they are hermaphroditic, although some soft shelled clams are dioecious, meaning they have distinct genders. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
They clamber about the branches like parrots to get at them. Times, Sunday Times
It cannot make itself heard above the general clamour for attention. Times, Sunday Times
Now the police sergeant, who has moved back to the town after a 17-year stint elsewhere in the county, wants to clamp down on the late night rowdies.
Bloatsheet bounced through the kail-yard like a maukin, clamb over the bit wall, and off like mad; while Blister was feeling Magneezhy's pulse with one hand, and looking at his doctor's watch, which he had in the other. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
The Chancellor made much of his clampdown on tax avoidance but, it is doubtful the outcome will live up to the hype. Times, Sunday Times
Regardless of the eurozone turmoil and global recession, consumers and health bodies are still clamouring for Botox. Botox helps to create an Irish boom town amid economic gloom
The etiology of preeclampsia is unknown, but widespread pathologic changes can result in pulmonary edema, oliguria, seizures, thrombocytopenia, and abnormal liver enzymes.
By bolstering Clampett's vision with a kind of premade Surrealism imported from Dali, Freleng dilutes the ingenuity and visual brilliance of the original short, reducing it to a clever referential game rather than a truly original work invented out of whole cloth. 12/17: Porky In Wackyland; Dough For the Do-Do; Quai des orfèvres
Yelling at him to be patient, she clambered into a pair of brigga, pulled on a shirt, and ran barefooted to unbar the door and let him in. A TIME OF WAR
It is widely believed that today's exclamation point comes from the Latin word io ` joy ', with the one letter placed above the other.) VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
A little brass bell tinkled a welcome, and the door, closing, shut out the clamour of the street.
Clinton the elder here withdrew, and had scarcely disappeared when two voices were heard in the hall, in a kind of clamorous remonstrance with each other, which voices were those of Father Magowan and our friend The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
Experimental research has been made on clamping constraint of two pieces steel plate spring for automobiles.
At the same time, many contemporary Episcopal congregations clamor for more and more in-depth adult - education offerings.
He looked at it suspiciously, and as he grabbed for it, the thunder only began to clamor loudly, sending more rain to beat down on the mansion.
If the lector reads the Responsorial Psalm and Gospel Acclamation, prepare those in a similar manner.
Earlier this afternoon, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. delivered a stirring commentary on NPR's All Things Considered (originally written for TheRoot. com) in which he compared today to the day after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and shared the reaction of Frederick Douglass, Erik Ose: Yes We Can, Said Barack Obama, And We Did
Must we really clamber up every alluvial fan, map every desert canyon, and slap a name on every dry lake and rocky outcropping?
With your left hand, carefully lower the spangler and clamp the sping-grip around the grommel handle while turning the spangler speed valve to "rapid" with your right, and pressing the oscillator button with your other hand. 'Twas the Day After Christmas
The clamour to make him England boss will be so great, it will take cloth ears to ignore it. The Sun
The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital
They may be clamouring for democracy and progress, but Lebanon's chieftains are feudal at heart.
Somehow he endured it, but he felt light-headed and his legs were rubbery when he clambered up the conning tower ladder onto the bridge. LOHENGRIN
As such, the broker thinks there is a risk that the Government may clamp down on profits. Times, Sunday Times
Then God sent down on him and on the stubborn unbelievers with him a thunderblast from the heavens of His power, which destroyed them all with a mighty clamour, and neither he nor any of his company set eyes on the city. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
Valery conveys a sense of the viewer's charged state and the imminent darkness in his exclamatory tones, alternating lines with choppy rhythms with those that hurtle towards their close.
Milo had his eyes screwed shut in pain, jaw clamped tight shut lest he cried out.
Nick made to close the door, but was stopped by a sudden exclamation.
Fish , clam, cuttlefish, shrimp and octopus flavored with white wine and saffron.
Such a recommendation, the panel added, was of course based on the assumption that the Reclamation project was still feasible.
The restaurant serves roasted octopus, and clam and prawn risotto. Times, Sunday Times
The meat of this clam is often sliced into cutlets and fried while the siphon is often skinned and then ground in a food processor or chopper and used in chowders.
Aye, aye, sir," the boy answered readily, for he enjoyed being aloft, and he clambered up the shrouds to the fore-topgallant yard and furled the sail, taking a pride in having it lie smooth and round on the top of the yard. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
The storage of silage on the pad (either in a makeshift straw clamp, or in plastic bags) is an agricultural use and not development.
She sat at the table in front of us and proceeded to order an enormous earthenware jug of red wine and a gargantuan bowl of spaghetti with clam sauce.
UPDATE 20071017 Andrew Linden apparently is listening to us, and only the megaprims over 256 m on a side are going to be removed or "clamped" down to 256 m, as he describes it. Archive 2007-10-01
Nor does there seem a host of players outside the XI clamouring for attention. Times, Sunday Times
After $2,000,000 had been "expended," the clamor of the stockholders caused the company actually to build several furnaces. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated
She is also a regular at the post-caucus Wednesday night clambake.
The damp, clammy fabric clung to my legs. Times, Sunday Times
The types of seafood they eat include mussels, scallops, clams, crabs, lobsters, abalone, and sea urchins.
The only place the councils should be getting involved here is with the existing Trading Standards officers that they control to clamp down on garages who pass these vehicles on their annual test.
I used two size classes of clams for this experiment to compare variation in growth rates between different life history stages.
∗ The exclamation mark is called a factorial and represents the product of consecutive integers from 1 to the number before the factorial symbol. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Drove down to the city center in the early afternoon and found a bar in which the lunchtime trade was brisk but not clamorous. THE HELLBOUND HEART
I lowered my head just to hide the snort that clamored to get out.
A column headed ITV Watch, possibly with a comma and an exclamation mark, would be far more useful, because hardly anyone does.
Most innocent people, Stone knew, tended to blabber to the cops when questioned, not clam up. NEW YORK DEAD
The sequence view got some fixes - some shortcuts where overlapping, the label column now shows cursor and selection and finally the cursor is clamped to now leave the editable area. Planet GNOME
The book is clamped in a laying press, and each of the three open edges is trimmed with a bookbinder's plow.
Shock victims often have a weak pulse, pale and clammy skin, and breathe with difficulty.
The tone is established early on; broad strokes of unbridled praise for friends, co-workers and pets, a breathless, accelerative pace and an embarrassment of exclamation marks.
Suddenly, and with appalling quickness the mastodonic brute reared itself on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in an effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its horrible realm. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
He stepped on my feet about three times, and I successfully managed to hold in my exclamations of pain.
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The simple Italian menu pulls no surprises but is hearty and well executed; grilled aubergine, spaghetti with clams and roast rack of lamb all feature.
In place of any old lobster clambake, consider having a super deluxe lobster clambake, which is sure to please a variety of tastes. Undefined
My palms started to feel clammy as beads of sweat collected on my forehead.
Now Tourre is a triple-exclamation-point "monstruosity" himself -- and, in true Goldman form, he made few apologies as he testified before the Senate investigators on Tuesday. The senators and their Fab foe
I clambered over to him and rested my head on his chest, silently listening to the soft rhythmic beating of his heart as he absently ran his hand through my hair.
Maggie darted to them and in a quick movement peeled off the hand clamped on his arm. Burning Bright
I looked up trying to hear the message, I felt a cold, clammy hand touch my cheek.
A study conducted by scientists at Yale University and published in 2008 reported that, compared to pregnant women who ate less than one serving of chocolate a week, those who consumed five or more servings of chocolate each week during their third trimester had a 40 percent lower risk of developing the dangerous high blood pressure condition known as preeclampsia. Origins
In recent years, the Chinese government has clamped down on firecrackers and fireworks in the cities because of fire hazards.
Under the dense canopy of a beech tree, it is possible to have different hardy cyclamen in flower every day of the year.

How To Use Clam In A Sentence

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