SHELL in a Sentence

Learn SHELL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

109 example sentences for SHELL, such as:

1. A snail's shell is spiral in form.
2. Better half an egg than empty shell.
3. The shell ought not to be forced on the spirit.
4. He that will eat the nut must first crack the shell.
5. There are many jobs you can help, shell oysters or peas, please.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHELL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shell
 n.  ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge; usually hard outer covering that encases certain organism
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  She had changed more than she knew and the shell of hardness which had begun to form about her heart when she lay in the slave garden at Twelve Oaks was slowly thickening.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  His protruding underlip retreated to normal as swiftly as a turtle withdraws its head beneath its shell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  About the core of her being, a shell of hardness had formed and, little by little, layer by layer, the shell had thickened during the endless months.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  Peace had failed her and Ashley had failed her, both in the same day, and it was as if the last crevice in the shell had been sealed, the final layer hardened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  They passed beside what had been the Atlanta Hotel where Rhett and Uncle Henry had lived and of that elegant hostelry there remained only a shell, a part of the blackened walls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  Ruined houses with shell holes in their roofs and half the walls torn away stared at her, silent and dark.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  Window curtains of starched cheap lace revealing a pink marble table with a conch shell and a Family Bible.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  The shell ought not to be forced on the spirit.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  I resumed all my chores, carried in the cobs and wood and water, and spent the afternoons at the barn, watching Jake shell corn with a hand-sheller.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
10  The cattle in the corral ate corn almost as fast as the men could shell it for them, and we hoped they would be ready for an early market.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
11  A shell screaming like a storm banshee went over the huddled heads of the reserves.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  His childhood was dead or lost and with it his soul capable of simple joys and he was drifting amid life like the barren shell of the moon.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  Murmuring faces waited and watched; murmurous voices filled the dark shell of the cave.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  He struck a match and, sheltering it in the shell of his hands, peered again into the mouth which Mr. Kernan opened obediently.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
15  The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Beneath the curious mixture is the kind of breathtaking skyscraper shell, balanced in space, that modern technology makes possible.
2  So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer.
3  Capable of holding 100 times its own weight in water, the structural sponge is realized by adding a hardening agent, which creates a shell on the surface.
4  The film shows how dripping water to erode the limestone until only a thin shell remained.
5  With flattery and big talk of easy money, the con men beguile Kyle into betting his allowance on the shell game.
6  The top shell is the carapace while the bottom is called the plastron.
7  And I will give the missionary my energies, but not myself: that would be only adding the husk and shell to the kernel.
8  "I hain't got only a dollar, and I want that to -- " "It don't make no difference what you want it for -- you just shell it out."
9  There are many jobs you can help, shell oysters or peas, please.
10  The color of the shell per se does not affect the quality of the egg.
11  He that will eat the nut must first crack the shell.
12  He said many of the men who were shot for cowardice were in fact suffering from shell shock.
13  Only the shell of the factory was left after the fire had been put out.
14  A snail's shell is spiral in form.
15  Better half an egg than empty shell.