whelk

Example Sentences

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"Butterfly blenny naturally choose abandoned whelk shells as their home but it seems they can get creative," she said..

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2024

A pair of cases are devoted to items from the Nanticoke people, including a wampum belt and necklace featuring whelk and clam shells and a toy canoe crafted from pine needles and sinew.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022

The group has been building steel wire cages, filling them with rocks and whelk shells and positioning them in rows along the shoreline of Barnegat Bay.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2022

What did we expect from a man with the self-awareness of a whelk?

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2019

Then a whale to a whelk we have swallowed the King of England.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron