How to Use conch in a Sentence

conch

noun
  • Seashell has a conch for a head, one right eye and small lips.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But shrimp feels like a hybrid of the conch shell and cherry craze.
    Tara Gonzalez, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2019
  • The way a snail’s conch just grows, mostly right but sometimes left.
    Victoria Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Add the stock, stir in the ground conch and potatoes and bring to a simmer.
    Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Overnight guests are welcomed by flag bearers and the sound of conch shell horns.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 20 Aug. 2020
  • That conch shell scene, for instance, came with a fair share of scrapes and bruises.
    Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The crabs became bait, in smaller numbers, for eels and conch.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • One musician lifts a Haitian conch.
    Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Best Things to Do Visit the conch mounds.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Best Things to Do Visit the conch mounds.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Some cheered the kids on with blasts from conch shells; another boater bugled tunes.
    Debra Utacia Krol, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The third, a conch shell, doubled as a set of speakers — the source of the recording.
    Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Melo Melo pearls, like conch pearls, are not true pearls, as they are not made of nacre.
    Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 20 Feb. 2021
  • On top of these rhythms, there’s call and response storytelling, and the blows of a conch shell.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2025
  • So do the large pink or queen conch, the fighting conch, the tulip band shell, the helmet shells and the cask shells.
    Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
  • Fairy Hawk lifted up a conch shell and cheered while leading hundreds in a march.
    Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The Bahamas is known for conch salad, and this happens to be one of the best spots.
    Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Antonia smashes the conch—a very tough meat—into thin slices.
    Peter Kelly, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The conch, for those unfamiliar, is the deep part of the center of your ear next to your ear canal.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Lobster and conch are off-limits during certain months.
    Brigid Washington, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Within the first two minutes of the first episode, a woman is blowing into a conch.
    Adam Epstein, Quartzy, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The murder weapons were a fireplace poker, a cast-iron fireplace kettle and a conch shell.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Airy, mournful notes sound from conch shells being blown, and the river erupts into action.
    Tim Neville, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The tourist vibe was punctuated by oversized bags and conch shell earrings.
    Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Tortoise and conch shells accessorize this coastal living room, while starfish adorn the mantel.
    Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The national dish of the Bahamas is conch salad.
    AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
  • Yellowtail snapper, parrot fish, a nurse shark, and giant pink conch all thrive in the area’s coral reef.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2018
  • To not have conch salad while in The Bahamas is to not have visited.
    Simeon Hall Jr., Bon Appétit, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The vibration of the conch shell’s song moved within me in a circular motion.
    Lola Méndez, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Our time on the quiet beach came to much too quick of an end when our guide blew into a conch shell to herd us all back aboard for the return trip.
    Tiffini Theisen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018

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