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clams

[ UK /klˈæmz/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫæmz/ ]
NOUN
  1. informal terms for money

How To Use clams In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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
  • Here the interior is inlaid with millions of beautiful shells, scallops, paloudres, clams, periwinkles, mussels, oysters and rogans.
  • Helped by the suckers on her tentacles she can easily prise open clams and mussels that would defeat most people. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • In relatively primitive organisms like clams, all nerves are unmyelinated. Stem cells, Part 1, Introduction and Ethics
  • Also avoid raw fish, especially shellfish such as oysters and clams.
  • They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs.
  • 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.
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