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

Tiny baby oysters, called spat, are attached to whelk shells and placed in the bay near the existing cages to further stabilize the shoreline.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2022

Pre-Columbian painted animal sculptures, which attest, in their lifelike accuracy, to the sophistication and skill of their creators, were found at Key Marco, Fla., along with countless lightning whelk beads, pendants and ear buttons.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021

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

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2019

One pound of rock-cod requires for its formation ten pounds of whelk; one pound of whelk requires ten pounds of sea-worms; and one pound of worms requires ten pounds of sea-dust.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur