Sentence examples for cockle from inspiring English sources
'cockle' is correct and can be used in written English
It's a verb that means "to wrinkle or pucker the surface of something". For example, "The intense heat caused her skin to cockle."
verb
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
"I've been on those sands man and boy … What happened that night was not only awful beyond words – it was absolutely avoidable … Even when the tide hit them, had they had anybody with them, like me, who knows the area, there was still a safe route off the cockle bed … They could have walked to safety".
The cockle permit scheme, under which holders have to complete a safety course and learn about intertidal fishing, was introduced in December 2003, just eight weeks before the disaster.
And there had been fierce cockle wars between local gangmasters from Scotland and Wales since eight years before … It was just chaos and it became very difficult to work in the trade".
Work on Morecambe's cockle beds has ceased, and at the time action was promised to prevent such a tragedy happening again.
In October 2011, 17 cockle pickers of eastern European origin were saved at the River Ribble estuary in Lancashire, 30 miles from the scene of the disaster.
And well beyond 2004 cockle pickers have had to be rescued.
He also made the extraordinary assertion that a restrictive immigration policy would help downtrodden illegal immigrants, such as the Morecambe Bay cockle-pickers.
Before long, however, politicians and others were finding corroboration for their views in the cockle-pickers' misfortune.For the government, the deaths proved the menace of the "snakeheads", gangs who smuggle Chinese emigrants to the west for perhaps £20,000 ($37,000)—the sort of crooks that a new FBI-style policing agency, announced by Tony Blair this week, is supposed to tackle.
"Precisely because the NHS is delivering through the huge initial impetus that targets are providing, we can extend the focus to enhanced quality standards," he said.In this section Judge not, lest ye be judged The parable of the cockle-pickers Going downhill Deer me Further rises ahead About turn Specially needy Challenging language Back home ReprintsThis chain of reasoning is a bit of a stretch.
The big idea was to replace the wind-blasted main chairlift with a funicular railway.In this section Judge not, lest ye be judged The parable of the cockle-pickers Going downhill Deer me Further rises ahead About turn Specially needy Challenging language Back home Reprints Related items Tourism in Scotland: Motoring downhillAug 3rd 2000The railway was meant to cost taxpayers £12.1m.
(The government, it has emerged, had also been warned about the cockle-pickers' plight in a letter from the local MP last year).
