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And for this match at the Kennington Oval, a desperate England were blooding eight new internationals, including a 17-year-old whelp, James Prinsep.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2011

Such as: hood, bum, slob, jerk, thug, whelp.

From Time Magazine Archive

At first, Medicine Ball Caravan looks like another whelp from the Woodstock litter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pondering the tragedy, William Wordsworth labeled him "the marvellous boy," and Samuel Johnson burbled, "It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things."

From Time Magazine Archive

Of a certain runty rat-faced boy, Tormund said, “That one’s a whelp of Varamyr Sixskins. You remember Varamyr, Lord Crow?”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Kruse now transfers his pregnant dogs to Lichirie, who whelps the puppies and raises them until they’re weaned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

James Franco has taken Cormac McCarthy’s stylistic prose and replaced it with grunts, whelps and whinnies.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2014

He refers to them, as if they were abused whelps, as “members of our litter.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2013

You can't close them fast enough, and eventually the screen whelps itself into incoherence.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2011

His heart cried out within him the way a brach with whelps between her legs would howl and bristle at a stranger—so the hackles of his heart rose at that laughter.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The puppies were whelped by Kruse’s business partner and former employee who sells the litters from Kruse’s breeding dogs under his own license, which had not been suspended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

His new wife whelped out three babies within three years and likes to think she is an authority on my child, “Katy.”

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2019

And from Susan’s line, the queen’s breeding program at the Kennels of Windsor whelped hundreds of corgi puppies.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2018

Slotting a thesis about modern capitalism into the picaresque 17th-century adventures of a servant "named after the bush he'd been whelped under" doesn't bespeak subtlety.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2013

It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

Historically in winter, the gulf’s pack ice transforms into the southernmost whelping grounds for harp seals—an ice nursery for newborn pups.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

If you’re craving some cuteness overload, check out Warrior Canine Connection’s puppy whelping room cam.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021

The whelping, or delivery, area is off-limits, but we could watch the mothers and their litters on a wall of video feeds.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019

He said the puppies live in what’s called a whelping box right now, which is where they nurse and eat their gruel.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2016

She loves especially to hear about the dark coasts of South America with their impenetrable walls of trees and offshore breezes full of the stink of rotting kelp and the cries of whelping seals.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr