I see no reason for supposing that the price of whelks in Brighton compares unfavourably with the price of whelks in other great whelk-eating centres; but the price of fruit is undeniably high.
The whelks are in a basket, to the handle of which a dozen pieces of wire with crooked ends are attached by long cords.
Among the so-called shell fish of the class mollusca, mussels, limpets, cockles, and whelks are all largely used for bait.
We do not have these whelks in North America, but we have a variety of small gastropods, whose shells are sometimes rough and coiled in a spiral form, sometimes round like land-snails, and of various sizes.
Mitre-shells, and the Red-Whelks (Fusus) are examples.
It does not stagger him, receiving and trusting the plan of God as he does, that he sees other men rejecting and disbelieving it, any more than it surprises him to find fishers who might dive for pearls dredging for whelks and mud-worms.
He will lie flat and love Him, will do penance, will eat no whelks for a month to appease Him.
About midsummer "the disease betrayed its malignancy by the eruption of whelks and spots.
I cooks these whelks for chaps and women as stands with stalls, and gets a penny a kettleful.
The floor was covered with baskets and trays with piles of whelks upon them, some of which were cooked and some were not.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whelks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
