Most houses possessed the right to hold the assize of bread and ale and to fine alewives who overcharged or gave short measure.
Biencourt and his followers were scattered about the woods and shores, digging the tuberous roots called ground-nuts, catching alewivesin the brooks, and by similar expedients sustaining their miserable existence.
These are at one time (when Alewivespasse up the Rivers) to be catched in Rivers, in Lobster time at the Rockes, in Macrill time in the Bayes, at Michelmas in the Seas.
The first day Miles was bidden to plant corn, putting two shiny alewives into each hole, and Jack Cooke was set to plant the row next him.
Shad and alewives are taken here in their season, but salmon, though at one time more numerous than shad, are now more rare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alewives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
