How to Use quahog in a Sentence

quahog

noun

• The research will include a project to try to explain changes in the abundance of ocean quahogs.
  — Associated Press, Washington Post, 28 May 2017
• The group is working with four shellfish farmers to grow quahogs in Maine and study the results.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
• Ming, a quahog clam, died at the age of 507 when researchers tried to dredge the bivalve up from Icelandic waters.
  — Paul Nicklen, National Geographic, 23 July 2016
• Andrade’s Catch has managed to support quahog sales, at least at a small scale.
  — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
• They were perfectly preserved inside the shells of southern quahogs.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 July 2019
• Explore the 18th-century ghost town of Portsmouth Village, and bring a shortboard for the beach break, a rake for hunting quahogs, and plenty of fishing gear for the drum and snapper lurking in the deep blue water.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
• Tanks are filled with fish and sea creatures; brave kids can gently (with two fingers) touch lobsters, quahogs, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, and other marine life.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
• Whether digging their own or buying them, most people use briny, flavorful quahog clams.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• The tribute would have taken the form of wampum, or shell beads, that New England Indians manufactured from local quahog (in the case of purple beads) and periwinkle and whelk (in the case of white beads).
  — National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2020
• Ocean quahogs are declining near the Cape and increasing to the north, both because of warming and ocean acidification.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• This region is home to commercially important fishes, as well as wild stocks of quahogs, scallops, and surf clams that can't swim away from growing acidic waters.
  — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
• Pinsky points to species such as Atlantic halibut, winter flounder, and ocean quahog that have disappeared from historical habitats and are important to fisheries.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• Now scientists like Saba want to know what might happen to animals that live in the Northeast, a region home to commercially important fishes, wild stocks of quahogs (clams), scallops, and surf clams that can't swim away from growing acidic waters.
  — Eric Niiler, National Geographic, 15 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024