whelk
Example Sentences
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They’ve placed 10,000 bags of oysters and whelk shells there since 2015.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
It reported the boat was regularly "operated in an unsafe manner", with the priority on carrying a large whelk catch, rather than on making sure it was stable at sea.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2022
In the 1990s, the population of horseshoe crabs along the East Coast was decimated by fishermen who used them as bait to catch eel and corner the lucrative market for whelk or conch.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021
With fish quota hard to come by, inshore fishermen here have increasingly turned to crab, lobster and whelk to make ends meet and 85% of the total shellfish haul is exported.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2018
The crab lives in the whelk shell, and the Anemone lives on the roof, as it were.
From On the Seashore by R. Cadwallader Smith
