Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
clam or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was so tempting to close up, clamlike, and hide.
Kiss It Erin Downing 2010
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It was so tempting to close up, clamlike, and hide.
Kiss It Erin Downing 2010
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Mark Simons Twenty-five years ago Toshiba had a vision: a clamlike device that included a keyboard and screen.
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Mark Simons Twenty-five years ago Toshiba had a vision: a clamlike device that included a keyboard and screen.
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Mark Simons Twenty-five years ago Toshiba had a vision: a clamlike device that included a keyboard and screen.
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Qualms were clamlike thoughts that lay at the watery bottom of consciousness and only showed up when the water got very quiet and clear, as happened when a person was trying to drift off to sleep.
The Color of Her Panties Anthony, Piers 1992
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Qualms were clamlike thoughts that lay at the watery bottom of consciousness and only showed up when the water got very quiet and clear, as happened when a person was trying to drift off to sleep.
The Color of Her Panties Anthony, Piers 1992
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He lay there mur'muring spirit rhymes as he leaned over the side to watch the phosphorescent motocrullers, tiny, superfast clamlike bi'valves that made whirlpools of light beneath the shade af-forded by the ship.
Voyage To The City Of The Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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He was shaken, and the clamlike stolidity which he had assumed as protection gave way.
Uneasy Money 1928
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Hailed in some quarters as one of the finest players of all time, he was a visionary midfield general who could slice apart the most clamlike of defences with his incisive, imaginative passing.
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