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How to use eggshell in a sentence

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During egg-laying, birds increase consumption of calcareous grit to obtain sufficient calcium for eggshell formation.
If you prefer a less-glossy finish on woodwork, eggshell or satin may be used there as well.
All paints consist of binders or resins, pigments, solvents, and additives-whether it's flat, eggshell, semi-gloss, or high-gloss.
Keeping the edge wet is most important for gloss and eggshell, as is smoothing off with gentle finishing strokes.
Surfaces painted with semi-gloss or eggshell finish paints are easier to clean than flat-finish paints.
He uses an oil based eggshell paint rather than a water-based emulsion for the base coats.
Eventually it was determined that there was eggshell lodged in the gum behind one of my front teeth.
This wasn't a forgivable tiny piece of eggshell, but a large wall of shell that looked like a shiv a bird might carve in prison.
The chemical composition of eggshell includes calcium and phosphorus, in similar proportions to bone, or to the rock called dolomite.
Domes of turquoise and eggshell, arches and colonnades, all arranged with effortless rhythm and elegance.
Follicle cells also secrete the materials of the vitelline envelope and eggshell that surround the mature egg.
The only characteristic that separated parasitic cowbirds from their nonparasitic relatives was an increase in eggshell thickness.
The eggshell collapsed on one side, spilling out the creature within, or at least its forequarters.
Even today visitors can scour the area and come up with fragments of dinosaur eggshell or fossilized bone shards of Protoceratops.
A plaintive shirtless man, with cupped hands extended in front of him, holds the two halves of a broken eggshell.
Other than the sixties-era retro-grainy design of the eggshell surface, the melamine could be brand new.
The number of eggs depredated by ghost crabs was estimated by counting those eggs that had a small circular section of the eggshell removed.
Calcium makes up slightly more than one-third of the average penguin eggshell.
Of the destroyed eggs, 39 had small circular holes punctured in the eggshell.
Here, the background in both the hallway and dining room is off-white, a blend of creams and whites and eggshell.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As he dropped the boat in the river, it danced as uneasily and buoyantly as an eggshell.
When you try to chaff people, it is like an elephant dancing on eggshell china.
Eventually the end of the thin brittle primine breaks like an eggshell and the secundine falls out.
It is inadequate to say that the skull was smashed to bits like an eggshell.
Our boat was but an eggshell, and we had few clothes to defend us from the weather.
May they curl themselves into an eggshell and be your guests to-morrow.
Canoe is smashed like eggshell, but is on top of ice and cannot sink.
Listen how I shall crush all your lengthy yam into an eggshell.
Either trunk would have crushed the old camp like an eggshell!
And Sandy felt as if every branch he grasped were an eggshell.
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