Sentence examples for collected seashells from inspiring English sources

They stopped at a lighthouse and collected seashells and driftwood.

Or that he collected seashells and driftwood, and occasionally wore a kimono?

We played with our naked, giggling baby in the amniotic surf and then, in my empty Starbucks cup, we collected seashells -- tinted pink, dappled brown, ridged in white -- for his great-grandmother.

By Richard Lockridge The New Yorker, July 9, 1932 P. 7 An elderly gentleman at Southhampton watched two little girls playing in the sand and finally addressed them, asking if they collected seashells as he did when he was a little boy.

Much older and altogether different memories of the Normandy coast intruded themselves during my trip, carrying me back to childhood vacations in Cabourg, where I built castles in the sand and collected seashells, unaware at the time that the stately hotel right behind me was a crucial setting in a novel I discovered much later, by a writer named Marcel Proust.

Stein painstakingly collected seashells, nuts, wood, and debris herself before creating the sculptures.

"I think of running around on the beach when I was a kid, and collecting seashells".

If you like collecting seashells, you may want to take a pass on the cone shell.

Moving from the great to the small, Ellis takes issue with even the seemingly benign pursuit of collecting seashells.

One of the little girls looked at him disdainfully, and replied, "Ruth and I don't collect seashells.

Liang Pan, 16, from Chinatown, and a group of friends came with plastic bags to collect seashells, beach glass and smooth rocks for Liang's aquarium.