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Example sentences for "clamshell"

Lexicographically close words:
clamp; clamped; clamping; clamps; clams; clan; clandestine; clandestinely; clane; clang
  1. After a moment he mechanically spat on a clamshell and requested Davy to "sic" it.

  2. Frisby, expectorating upon a clamshell and hurling it seaward.

  3. Illustration c: Strings of clamshell disk beads identifiable as the "chaines" of Fletcher.

  4. It is of some interest to note that in later times the beads have been very abundant, and that in the last 350 years the manufacture and use of clamshell disk beads have been much increased.

  5. Gabriel Bearse, after a moment's reflection, opened the gate in the picket fence and walked along the clamshell walk to the shop door.

  6. A clamshell walk led from the gate to the doors.

  7. Passing a rugged point where the causeway projects considerably, we came suddenly upon the Scallop or Clamshell Cave, so justly esteemed one of the most wonderful features of this famous island.

  8. The double clamshell merely forms a pair of Indian nippers.

  9. He was eyeing the clamshell and looking more and more uneasy.

  10. The desert, as seen through the opened clamshell doors, reeled away astern, and then seemed to tilt, and reeled away again.

  11. It ended astern in a clumsy-looking bulge that was closed by a pair of huge clamshell doors, opening straight astern.

  12. The co-pilot closed the clamshell doors, and it became possible to hear oneself think again.

  13. Great clamshell buckets on the Lidgerwood cableways would swoop down upon the barges, get 2 cubic yards of material at a mouthful, lift it up to the cable, carry it across to the storage piles and there dump it.

  14. Here the clamshell dippers were run out on the arms of the cranes to the storage piles, where they picked up their loads of material.

  15. And so Ab slid down the tree, clamshell in hand, and began laboring vigorously at the spot agreed upon.

  16. The game once driven to its hole, the clamshell and the sharpened fire-hardened spade-stick were brought into use and the fate of the animal sought was rarely long in doubt.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clamshell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.