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shell

A hard object that can be found on beaches. I have a collection of colorful shells at home which I have collected when I visit the beach.

shell

An act of bombing. The shelling of the South Korean island is a major event that happened in 2010.

shell

ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals (= carapace) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles use explosives on The enemy has been shelling us all day look for and collect shells by the seashore fall out of the pod or husk The corn shelled hit the pitches of hard and regularly He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod (= case, casing) the housing or outer covering of something the clock has a walnut case a very light narrow racing boat remove from its shell or outer covering shell the legumes shell mussels a rigid covering that envelops an object the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice the exterior covering of a bird's egg the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts (= husk) remove the husks from husk corn (= blast) create by using explosives blast a passage through the mountain (= plate) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) (= beat) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship We beat the competition Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game

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Examples shell examples

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Simple sentences

I'd never wear a shell suit.
A snail's shell is spiral in form.
She's only a shell of her former self.
He became a shell of his former self.
The eaglet is halfway out of its shell.
Tom tried to get Mary to come out of her shell.
For we are but the shell and the leaf: the great death which each man has in himself, that is the fruit around which everything revolves.
I found a beautiful shell on the shore.
Shell after shell smashed into the fort.
What I'm holding in my hands is a fossilized shell.
She became a shell of her former self.
Mary was completely shell-shocked after Tom dressed her down for being late for the meeting.
Tom owns a shell company in the British Virgin Islands.
As a lark, Tom bought Mary a plastic-grass hula skirt and a coconut-shell bra, momentarily forgetting that her opportunities to wear this colourful get-up would be somewhat limited.

Movie subtitles

A number of gunners are pushing the shell up an incline into the mouth of the gun.
Everyone is waiting for the signal which starts the shell on its voyage.
The gun is fired and the shell disappears into space.
The shell comes down with a crash.
At last, the astronomers have found the shell and quickly shut themselves in the interior.
He rushes to the rope which hangs from the point of the shell and letting himself slide down the rope he gives it an impetus which causes the shell to fall off the edge of the moon.
The shell falls with sickening rapidity.
The shell balances and thanks to the hermetically sealed air in its interior rises slowly to the surface.
The shell is picked up by a steamer which tows it to port.
Now, you're gonna see some shell fire, and you're gonna be scared, see?
That kind of shell you don't have to pay much attention to.
It is thy dead shell.
The shapes between the trees, resembling the shell of some mythical animal are just the roof tiles of the village.
I want to play some more of that shell game.
He's a shell of his former self, which nobody can deny.
I expect shell be down presently.
One shell empty.
And for a shell an empty, glittering husk she must give up all that a woman holds most dear.
Defective shell.
A mere empty shell.
I wonder why I put that shell in my gun.
Because I suspect that under that cynical shell you're at heart a sentimentalist.
Make mine on the half-shell.
He was picked up by the Germans. in a shell hole near Arras in 1917. close to death and with no means of identification.
Since a shell hole in France, and that was three years ago.
The shell's opened up the well.
They've got to shell us too!
Open fire immediately and shell the line.
Nor were we under the shell fire of grenades. and still we are soldiers.
Shell some peas.
Nothing. My palm looks like an oyster shell.
During the late war, when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln and General Phil Sheridan, well sir I fought 'mid shock and shell and cannon roar.
I looked upon a desolate shell with no whisper of the past about its staring walls.
Because, my dear Ricky, I suspect that under that cynical shell you are at heart a sentimentalist.
Nothing on land, in the air, on the sea, or under the sea shell prevent our complete and final victory.
Just drop a hint that his wife might find out about this apartment and he'll shell out fast.
But I never saw a Jap or heard a shell coming at me.

News and current affairs

For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.
Shell, the largest foreign operator in the Niger Delta, has been criticized repeatedly for its egregious practices and its unwillingness to be held to account.
Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other major oil companies should step forward and help to fund the necessary cleanup, ushering in a new era of responsibility.
But the Stability Pact is merely a shell - it needs to be filled with content.
Without a sense of civic and political community, democracy becomes a hollow shell of itself, and can become dangerous as it is no longer controlled by rooted values.
The shell of what remains continues to challenge the company's fate, notably in a Houston, Texas courtroom.
By contrast, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's approach is another example of the kind of shell games that got America into its mess.
This also applies to such artifacts of modern humans as personal ornaments, with recently discovered shell beads dated at 75,000 years ago.
Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, described the global map of major shale oil and gas deposits.
Shell telah meningkatkan investasi dalam teknologi carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) untuk menguji apakah penggunaan bahan bakar fosil dapat dibuat menjadi aman melalui penangkapan CO2 agar tidak lepas ke atmosfir.
The union itself is a shell of its own former self, a partisan and mostly right-wing movement of workers buffeted by the new economic reality.
By making it harder for individuals to hide behind shell companies, such regulation would make illicit financial flows significantly more difficult to accomplish - and much easier to spot.
In other words, Hezbollah's survival strategy partly depends on the protective shell of a rickety Lebanese state.
Among foreign investors, both Shell and TNK-BP are being pushed out by Gazprom in their main gas fields in Russia.
American newspapers now report that former Shell Oil CEO Philip Carroll will be appointed as the US czar of Iraqi oil.
Perusahaan-perusahaan seperti Total, ENI, Statoil, dan Shell mendukung metode carbon price (seperti sistem pajak atau perizinan) untuk mempercepat transisi menuju energi rendah karbon dan mulai melakukan persiapan internal.
The first reflex of the fundamentalists is to withdraw from the mainstream, to build around themselves a shell that is impervious to any logic other than their own.
In the nineteenth century, when the Tunisian craft guilds failed to adapt to industrialization, they became irrelevant, and the amins, or guild masters, were left as figureheads in shell institutions.
Instead of providing resolute leadership in the global financial and economic crisis, the European Union's largest economy is withdrawing into its shell.
And, for all its high-flown language, the UfM is an empty shell.
For decades our world existed under a shell of bipolarity, with two power blocs opposing each other on values, ideas and political convictions.
Under that shell, however, there was change.
Now Russianness itself seems to lack a secure foundation, for it is but a hollow shell of discarded state symbols.
Foreign ministries translated that idea into the Stability Pact, but finance ministers refused to finance it, so the pact remained an empty shell.

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