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Sentence Examples Eating can be as simple as opening the shell and eating the contents, including juice. The remaining shell is cut into pieces and broken down by an industrial shredder so that the aluminium can be melted down. Its services to its clients include incorporating and operating shell companies in friendly jurisdictions on their behalf. The shell of Magallana gigas varies widely with the environment where it is attached. The two valves of the shell are slightly different in size and shape, the right valve being moderately concave. Larvae often settle on the shell of adults, and great masses of oysters can grow together to form oyster reefs. Because of its streamlined shell and strong foot, it can burrow in wet sand very quickly, and is also able to swim. The clam will try to escape the salt by coming up out of its hole, at which point you can gently grab the shell and pull it out of the ground. On Lion two men had been killed and eleven wounded, most in the A turret lobby by a shell hit. The question of shell effectiveness had also been raised after the Battle of Dogger Bank, but no action had been taken. At least amongst the surviving ships, no enemy shell was found to have penetrated deck armour anywhere. The Royal Exchange caught fire in the late afternoon, and was a smoking shell within a few hours. The explosive and detonating mechanism is contained in a buoyant metal or plastic shell. Most of the Taiwanese entities that set up shell companies through the Panamanian law firm were small, unlisted companies or individuals. I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some awk and tcl to implement these projects. Furthermore, it was supposed that a static shell of strata was present under the continents. A shell consisting of calcite can, for example, dissolve while a cement of silica then fills the cavity. This drinking vessel, for court feasts, depicts Atlas holding the shell on his back. Earth has an outer shell made of a number of discrete, moving tectonic plates floating on a solid convective mantle above a liquid core. If perchance she finds an egg already covered by a shell, she must at once consult the shochet to determine its kosherness. Show More Sentences These remains have associated personal ornaments in the form of beads and worked shell, suggesting symbolic behavior. More than 70 marine shell beads of the sea snail species Nassarius kraussianus have been found in the M1 and Upper M2 phases at Blombos Cave. Also, the consistency in shell size and colour indicates that the Nassarius shells were carefully selected. Being in the shell like that, the salt wouldn't get through that shell enough to spoil them, and they'd have that nice sweet chestnutty taste. A shell midden or shell mound is an archaeological feature consisting mainly of mollusk shells. Some shell middens are directly associated with villages, as a designated village dump site. In all cases, shell middens are extremely complex and very difficult to excavate fully and exactly. McClatchy Newspapers initially found four Americans with offshore shell companies named in the documents. On Canada's west coast, there are shell middens that run for more than a kilometer along the coast and are several meters deep. There are instances in which shell middens may have doubled as areas of ceremonial construction or ritual significance. The shell of the cottage, and a very large part of one of his projects, still exist to the rear. Each shell contains two pecans, usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed. The eastern oyster, like all members of the family Ostreidae, can make small pearls to surround particles that enter the shell. This study concerns all infaunal brachiopods that possess an inarticulate, organo-phosphatic, linguliform shell. Many recently created shell companies were set up in Samoa, perhaps after Niue revised its tax laws. These scutes overlap the seams between the shell bones and add strength to the shell. The murexes are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors. First, they employ limb pumping, sucking air into their lungs and pushing it out by moving the limbs in and out relative to the shell. The shell presents a representative nacroprismatic microstructure, with columnar calcitic prisms in the upper and nacreous layer in the lower. One of the few exceptions is the African pancake tortoise, which has a flat, flexible shell that allows it to hide in rock crevices. Show More Sentences The trop shell consists of three people where the bow has a pair of sculling oars, and 2,3 each a sweeping oar. These lighter shells have large spaces called fontanelles between the shell bones. In the case of prolonged periods of anoxia, it has been shown that the turtle shell both releases carbonate buffers and uptakes lactic acid. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. In April 2008, police found 1,500 shell casings on various streets after one battle left 13 suspected drug traffickers dead. Proganochelys lacked the ability to pull its head into its shell, had a long neck, and had a long, spiked tail ending in a club. Controlled release fertilizers are traditional fertilizers encapsulated in a shell that degrades at a specified rate. He worked out that shell fragments are rolled by waves towards the shore, where they are broken up further. Waterbird and seabird remains have also been found in shell mounds on the island of Oronsay off the coast of Scotland. Replacement occurs when the shell, bone or other tissue is replaced with another mineral. The small shell fragments are blown up the beach to form hillocks, which are then blown inland. After this period, the hatching activity accelerates and the shell is broken apart in 35 hours. The Hyolitha are a class of extinct animals with a shell and operculum that may be molluscs. The molluscan shell appears to have originated from a mucus coating, which eventually stiffened into a cuticle. The first mollusc shell almost certainly was reinforced with the mineral aragonite. Natural pearls form when a small foreign object gets stuck between the mantle and shell. During shell fire, they had no other head protection but the turban, the symbol of their faith. The shell was designed to explode on contact and impale the whale with the harpoon. It produced more refined flint tools but also made use of bone, antler, shell, amber, animal teeth, and mammoth ivory. A common appetizer is the pastel which is a pastry shell filled with fish or meat that is then fried. Show More Sentences On top of the shield is a conch shell, which represents the varied marine life of the island chain. The shell is then broken with a wooden club and the nutmegs are picked out. It is prepared by being boiled alive, having its main body opened like a shell, and then having its innards mixed vigorously. During the ripening process, the husk will become brittle and the shell hard. The shell encloses the kernel or meat, which is usually made up of two halves separated by a partition. The psammobiotic species are usually particularly small, and the shell is often flattened. The shell of the cupola, being usually made of steel, has refractory brick and plastic refractory patching material lining it. The black walnut is of high flavor, but due to its hard shell and poor hulling characteristics it is not grown commercially for nut production. This new phase took the form of a shell keep with all the buildings constructed against the curtain wall. In both middens, the shell layers were underlaid and overlaid by nonshell cultural deposits. Frank Gehry's detailed, stainless steel band shell, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, hosts the classical Grant Park Music Festival concert series. The new Coventry Cathedral designed by Sir Basil Spence was consecrated in 1962 and adjoins the shell of the ancient church. Other animals, such as squirrels or jays, will either split the shell completely in half or make a jagged hole in it. Further examination reveals the cut surface of the hole has toothmarks which follow the direction of the shell. This was a shrapnel shell used by the Austrians in the mountains with a nose-cap which went on after the burst and exploded on contact. Limpets are aquatic snails with a shell that is broadly conical in shape and a strong, muscular foot. One of the angles of each shell is lightly raised, and the other is attached to the center of the structure. The external colour of the shell is often dark blue, blackish, or brown, while the interior is silvery and somewhat nacreous. This is a robust intertidal species with a dark and sometimes banded shell. The business was sold to a publicly traded clean shell to achieve rapid liquidity for the owners. Show More Sentences The shell contains six to seven whorls with some fine threads and wrinkles. Measuring the shell from the end of the aperture to the apex reveals the length of the snail. Turning the shell over with the aperture flat on a surface and measuring vertically reveals the height of the snail. When exposed to either extreme cold or heat while climbing, a periwinkle will withdraw into its shell and start rolling, hoping to hit the water. The infection by this parasite does not seem to alter the growth and proportions of the snail shell. The shell is usually crushed and the soft parts extracted and put on a hook. With the added suggestion of her goggles it reminded her pupil of the polished shell or corslet of a horrid beetle. The bulbs develop from the inside, pushing the older layers outwards which become brown and dry, forming an outer shell, the tunic or skin. Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky. Other preparations include clams casino, clams on the half shell served stuffed with herbs like oregano and streaky bacon. A large shell containing several smaller shells of various sizes and types. In large hailstones, latent heat released by further freezing may melt the outer shell of the hailstone. The hailstone then may undergo 'wet growth', where the liquid outer shell collects other smaller hailstones. Scrobicularia plana, the peppery furrow shell, is a bivalve mollusc belonging to the family Semelidae. The shell is thin but quite deep, with circular closely packed growth ridges. The interior of the shell is white with a broad pallial line, large anterior adductor muscle scar and smaller posterior adductor muscle scar. The shell of a scallop consists of two sides or valves, a left valve and a right one, divided by a plane of symmetry. These growth rings increase in size downwards until they reach the curved ventral edge of the shell. Inserts that propel themselves rapidly away from the shell burst, often looking like fish swimming away. In scallops, the shell shape tends to be highly regular, and is commonly used as an archetypal form of a seashell. Show More Sentences They often do this in spurts of several seconds before closing the shell entirely and sinking back to the bottom of their environment. Some scallops, including Chlamys hastata, frequently carry epibionts such as sponges and barnacles on their shell. This happens to be an antifragmentation vest, which is the vest which would protect you against shell fragments, bullets, et cetera. Sometimes, markets sell scallops already prepared in the shell, with only the meat remaining. When referring to St James, a scallop shell valve is displayed with its convex or outer surface showing. Shot from a mortar like a shell, a mine consists of a canister with the lift charge on the bottom with the effects placed on top. Many paintings of Venus, the Roman goddess of love and fertility, included a scallop shell in the painting to identify her. The scallop shell is believed to have originally been carried, therefore, by pagans as a symbol of fertility. The shell of this species is sometimes quite colourful, and it is also thin and brittle. Each one wore a mask or falseface, a tattered blanket over his shoulders, and carried a turtle shell rattle in his hand. Marginellas have smooth, shiny shells with an elongate, narrow aperture three-quarters or more of the total shell length. The shell around each somite can be divided into a dorsal tergum, ventral sternum and a lateral pleuron. It can easily be differentiated from other modern sea turtles by its lack of a bony shell, hence the name. Its name comes from the greenish color of the turtles' fat, which is only found in a layer between their inner organs and their shell. Underneath, the green turtle has four pairs of inframarginal scutes covering the area between the turtle's plastron and its shell. Sounds can also be detected through vibrations of the head, backbone, and shell. The yellow tang fish swims along with the turtle and feeds on the algae, barnacles, and parasites on its shell and flippers. Florida being Florida, all that energetic for-profit concerns had to do was set up non-profit shell companies as nominal administrators. The walrus is unique in that it consumes its prey by suction feeding, using its tongue to suck the meat of a bivalve out of the shell. It was to be a hollow shell of a marriage and they finally divorced in 1921, after a lengthy period of separation. Show More Sentences Woolf's fiction is also studied for its insight into shell shock, war, class and modern British society. On 15 April 1918, Lewis was wounded and two of his colleagues were killed by a British shell falling short of its target. Pearl farmers can culture a pearl by placing a nucleus, usually a piece of polished mussel shell, inside the oyster. The least she could do was crawl back into her severely stylish shell, so she wouldn't look pitiful when he gave her the old heave-ho. The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds. The mystical shell of Hegelian dialectics is ontological monovalence, manifest inter alia in the absence of the concept of determinate absence. Cooking oysters in the shell kills the oysters and causes them to open by themselves. The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. However, rapid cooling can be used to solidify a shell of white cast iron, after which the remainder cools more slowly to form a core of grey cast iron. Essentially the same as a peony shell, but with fewer and larger stars. A gift of land is held to be complete in all its parts, when accompanied by a couch shell, a seat of honor, a chhatra, a good horse and a good carriage. A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake. According to Anna Freud and Edward Glover, London civilians surprisingly did not suffer from widespread shell shock, unlike the soldiers in the Dunkirk evacuation. Raven wore a labret at that time set with abalone shell which was formerly very valuable, and it is from him that high-caste people afterward used those. As a consequence, for example, within a shell of uniform thickness and density there is no net gravitational acceleration anywhere within the hollow sphere. Firebombing on this date led to severe damage to large areas of the city centre and to Coventry's historic cathedral, leaving only a shell and the spire. The aerial shell, however, is the backbone of today's commercial aerial display, and a smaller version for consumer use is known as the festival ball in the United States. The display shell explodes in the air using an electronic timer. A shell intended to produce a loud report rather than a visual effect. It is made from stewing steak and beef gravy, enclosed in a pastry shell. Show More Sentences The shell was removed and replaced by a forest planted in tons of dirt hauled in especially for the event, and a trestle was constructed from the hills to the stage. In 1792 the architect Henry Holland rebuilt the auditorium, within the existing shell of the building but deeper and wider than the old auditorium, thus increasing capacity. Metal working was not indigenous to Oceania before Europeans arrived, so many of the artefacts from the collection are made from stone, shell, bone and bamboo. The upper shell radius of the nose section has been increased. More than 500 banks registered nearly 15,600 shell companies with Mossack Fonseca, with HSBC and its affiliates accounting for more than 2,300 of the total. The Panama Papers indicate he owns or owned eight shell companies. Leaked documents suggest that Mossack Fonseca helped tuna export company Borda Azul set up a shell company in the British Virgin Islands in order to avoid Costa Rican taxes. More than thirty Costa Rican law firms are mentioned in the Panama Papers as referring clients to Mossack Fonseca, resulting in the creation of more than 360 shell companies. According to leaked documents he had Mossack Fonseca establish a shell company in the British Virgin Islands for him named Phoenix Best Finance Ltd. According to the Panama Papers, Zimplats Holdings, a large platinum mining concern, set up a shell company to pay the salaries of its senior managers. An updated Rowperfect brand of dynamic rowers, RP3, produces ergometers that more naturally mimic the feel and resistance of rowing in a shell on the water. On the south side is the Queen's Gallery, used to exhibit items in the Royal collection, in the shell of the former Holyrood Free Church and Duchess of Gordon's School. The shell is firmly attached to the substrate by byssus threads. Examination of hazelnuts may show a neat, round hole in the shell. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other edible clams, which are often more or less rounded or oval. The shell is broadly ovate, thick, and sharply pointed except when eroded. The complex is notable for its concrete mural by sculptor Keith McCarter and the concrete elliptical paraboloid shell roof over the staff restaurant building. Oysters are otherwise eaten chilled on a bed of crushed ice on the half shell with mignonette sauce, and are often branded on where they were harvested. Olympia oysters are served on the half shell as well as the Kumamoto oyster, introduced by Japanese immigrants and a staple at dinner as an appetizer. The shell of most scallops is streamlined to facilitate ease of movement during swimming at some point in the life cycle, while also providing protection from predators. Show More Sentences The Pectinidae play an extremely important role in many benthic communities and exhibit a wide range of shell shape, sizes, sculpture, and culture. A boy was using a shell to pour sea water into a little hole. The Centric diatom's cytoplasm is located along the inner surface of the shell and provides a hollow lining around the large vacuole located in the center of the cell. This type of diatom can be found with a variety of shapes and sizes which heavily depends on how which axis the shell extends from and if spines are added to the Centrics. The scoters are said to appear on the coasts of France in great numbers, to which they are attracted by a certain kind of small bivalve shell fish called vaimeaux. The size of the 5f shell is just enough to allow the electrons to form bonds within the lattice, on the very boundary between localized and bonding behavior. In terms of shells, carbon consists of an incomplete outer shell, which comprises 4 electrons, and thus has 4 electrons available for covalent or dative bonding. Each distance measurement, regardless of the system being used, places the receiver on a spherical shell at the measured distance from the broadcaster. An oyster's mature shape often depends on the type of bottom to which it is originally attached, but it always orients itself with its outer, flared shell tilted upward. The eggs become fertilized in the water and develop into larvae, which eventually find suitable sites, such as another oyster's shell, on which to settle. If the shell is open, the oyster is dead, and cannot be eaten safely. Oysters can be eaten on the half shell, raw, smoked, boiled, baked, fried, roasted, stewed, canned, pickled, steamed, or broiled, or used in a variety of drinks. Professional shuckers require fewer than three seconds to open the shell. Some species of clams, particularly Mercenaria mercenaria, were in the past used by the Algonquians of Eastern North America to manufacture wampum, a type of shell money. In effect, the gun crews had laid an explosive train from the turret to the magazines, and one shell hit to a battlecruiser turret was enough to end a ship. The gunners hoped that the radar would detect the shell splashes and allow corrections to be made, although this method had never been tried before. Commercial activities on the land of the dock estate include fuel storage, natural gas storage, several engineering facilities and a shell fish specialist. These archaeologists point in particular to the relatively explosive emergence of ochre crayons and shell necklaces apparently used for cosmetic purposes. Ochre has been detected inside some of the shell beads, implicating that they were subject to deliberate or indirect use of ochre as a colouring agent. Some are small examples relating to meals had by a handful of individuals, others are many metres in length and width and represent centuries of shell deposition. Show More Sentences Additionally, hermit crabs have been known to use pieces of beach litter as a shell when they cannot find an actual seashell of the size they need. The lower shell that encases the belly is called the plastron. The inner layer of a turtle's shell is made up of about 60 bones that include portions of the backbone and the ribs, meaning the turtle cannot crawl out of its shell. The rigid shell means that turtles cannot breathe as other reptiles do, by changing the volume of their chest cavities via expansion and contraction of the ribs. The shape of the shell gives helpful clues about how a turtle lives. One of the most colorful turtles is the eastern painted turtle, which includes a yellow plastron and a black or olive shell with red markings around the rim. Tortoises also shed skin, but dead skin is allowed to accumulate into thick knobs and plates that provide protection to parts of the body outside the shell. This method is not very accurate, partly because growth rate is not constant, but also because some of the scutes eventually fall away from the shell. A variety of scenery is found on the island, including rugged granite outcrops, heathland of the exposed north coast and mainly shell beaches in the east and south. A shell is said to be recrystallized when the original skeletal compounds are still present but in a different crystal form, as from aragonite to calcite. The shell is secreted by a mantle covering the upper surface. Archaeology features such as shell middens, discarded fish bones, and cave paintings show that sea foods were important for survival and consumed in significant quantities. For tax evaders and those playing the angles, a network of accountants, lawyers and bankers is ready to set up shell companies and phony trusts to hide behind. Ribs were inserted into the hull once the shell of planking was assembled. Most peanuts marketed in the shell are of the Virginia type, along with some Valencias selected for large size and the attractive appearance of the shell. A shell with stars specially arranged so as to create a ring. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of shell? Words that rhyme with shell What is the past tense of shell? What is the plural of shell? What is the adjective for shell? What is the noun for shell? Translations for shell Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words shelia shelfware shelf-stable shelf life shelfful shelf she'll Shell shellac shellacked shellacking shellback 5-letter Words Starting With s sh she shel