Use "shells" in a sentence

1. "That's fine, you said laboratory equipment was the main thing they put in ceramic shells

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2. Audacity and Greenstone's cannon shells sparkled over the rough alien hull for almost a second before it vanished

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3. Shells: Full shells indicate success, provided that you work hard for it; empty shells bode vain hopes and loss of money

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4. There were the shells of larorlie vines draped over the lower limbs of these trees, the vines long dead in the deep shade

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5. He continued to remove the shells

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6. As they entered the cave, both very excited, they could see the broken shells lying about

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7. After a bit he raised his head and looked at Daniel, “Valotin and I are empty shells, that’s why we volunteered for this job

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8. Alexis was right, it was hard not to crunch bits of pottery or sea shells underfoot, and I was forced to step over a gang of red ants, dragging off a caterpillar and waving nasty-looking pincers at anything that threatened their mission

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9. The coxswains of those quick shells started yelling as they passed

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10. “They sat in the magazine and, well, did something to the shells,”

11. “Oh, you could always tell which shells had received their

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12. to find out exactly what was so special about these shells

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13. “The special shells, they almost never missed,” he said, sitting

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14. get the range with the ordinary shells, and only then use the special

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15. Glossy black shells covered the

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16. SHELLS gather in piles along the shore

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17. ” As the CSM finished speaking the first shells of the naval bombardment whistled overhead sounding like a train going by

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18. In fact if you looked up into the sky you could actually see the shells from the big naval guns flying in a curved arc towards the Turkish positions as I looked at my watch I could see that it was exactly 8am

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19. We believed it because the Turkish artillery was lashing the beaches firing down from Achi Baba but what really convinced us was that ‘Asiatic Annie’ was firing her heavy shells at both V and W Beaches

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20. As we moved forward we could see the outposts in front of us and we prepared to make a dash for them but before we got anywhere the artillery behind them opened up with shrapnel shells and we had to go to ground to find cover from the murderous hail that met us

21. Then they fired their shrapnel shells at us and this with the bullets chopped the bush to pieces flinging greenery everywhere and cutting our lads to pieces

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22. “The rest of the Brigade was trying to push up towards us but they were being slaughtered were they stood so naval artillery was called in to silence the machine guns but this did no good because the shells could not find them let alone smash them

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23. We had gone down to the beach and were enjoying our swim when a salvo of Turkish artillery shells was fired at us

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24. “They put me into a filling shed where they taught me to fill 18 pounder shells do you know we work ten hour days in that shed and it is not pleasant in fact it is dirty dangerous work

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25. In the fields we passed now there was Battery after Battery of artillery both light and heavy and near then huge piles of shells were being stacked in dumps

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26. As we continued forward we could see light flickering on the horizon and on the wind we could hear the crump of shells exploding and we knew we were getting close to the front line

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27. These were the ones that back in camp would miss breakfast for an extra half hour in bed but not here and as we handed our mess tins over to be filled we could hear the crump thump of shells on the wind again

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28. We breakfasted in the morning and then started our steady march up to the front line as we got closer we could hear the crump thump of shells and trench-mortars and we also fancied that we could hear the rattle of machine gun fire

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29. Both sides were now going at it hammer and tongue and this continued for some time with very lights soaring in to the sky machine guns rattling away and trench-mortars throwing their shells over

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30. In the end it was that bad one of the trench mortars lobbed a couple of shells in their direction after this there was blessed silence although the Germans retaliated for quite a while after

31. This allowed us to awe some of the new replacements when they ducked down and we would stand there nonchalant knowing very well the shells would land in the reserve trenches or far behind the lines

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32. “Don’t be angry with her she stopped at the munitions factory because she thought the shells she was making would be used to safeguard you and keep you safe over there that’s how deep her love is for you

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33. “That will be a first, because I’ve never known us to have enough artillery or even shells to do anything let alone blast the enemy into surrender

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34. Superior gunnery on board the Kearsarge and the deteriorated condition of Alabama’s powder and shells soon began to tell

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35. A short while later the German retaliation started and their shells plastered our front line and reserve trenches we took what cover we could in the bunkers

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36. As the shells landed I sat in our bunker and I must have looked as scared as the rest of the lads the floor shook from the explosions and dirt fell onto our heads from the roof

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37. “But wasn’t that because you only had shrapnel shells mostly on Gallipoli were here we have loads and loads of H

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38. shells (high explosive) don’t forget we have carried a lot of them

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39. Now as the guns settled down into their rhythm you could hear the different types of guns the howitzers would cough their shells out and they sounded a bit like the trench-mortars only about twenty times as loud

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40. Then we heard the shells whistle and moan overhead but they were firing long and hitting the German reserve trenches instead of the front line ones

41. The artillery are using shrapnel to cur the wire in order to do this the fuses on the shells must be cut exact

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42. can’t spot for the artillery and tell them where there shells are landing which isn’t very good for us

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43. But now to make things even worse the Germans started firing shrapnel shells from their hidden batteries behind Serre

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44. I could hear shells exploding again as the strafe started up again and then I could see Fred form the crater shooing me on my way so I lifted my hand towards him in salute

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45. It matters not whether the „money" is expressed in cowrie shells or American dollars (Or does it?) One can"t help expressing concern over the now defunct Gold Standard

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46. " When the yards were done, so were the 20 millimeter shells, which pretty much destroyed anything they hit

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47. A few searching shells from the fleet soon caused him to alter his decision, and the troops evacuated this stronghold, Commandante Billen being killed by a chance shell

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48. Every rifle from fort and entrenchment blazed at once at the silken globe; the artillery re-opened, and bullets and shells poured through the tree-tops, dealing death and destruction among the men in the crowded trail

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49. Grimes’ Battery had reopened, and as there was imminent risk from our own shells falling short, he sent orders to the artillery to cease firing while the troops deployed

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50. There was a murmur of hoarse commands, bugle-calls rang out, while the roar of artillery, incessant crash of rifles and bursting shells, drowned the imprecations of the soldiers and the agonised cries of the wounded

51. To unload one you needed to load and then eject all the shells (shotgun bullets are called shells) one by one and then make very sure that it was indeed unloaded before pulling the trigger to relax the firing pin

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52. The San Juan fort was now the objective of the enemy's fire, and their accurate shells drove out the occupants

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53. Several shells burst nearby, and an explosion of the dangerous ammunition was imminent, before Basil Ricketts of the Rough Riders and two troopers hurriedly dug a trench for the boxes

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54. They were soon heavily engaged, receiving shells also from Cervera's fleet

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55. Bullets and shells from Santiago fell behind San Juan in continuous hail

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56. Terry headed over to the Jeep, pulling a shotgun case and a box of shells from the boot

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57. The inhabitants had suffered terrible privations, and on the 1st and 2nd they had been terrorised by shells from the warships that fell in all parts of the town

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58. The Spanish reply was badly directed, and shells hissed and screamed over our heads, bursting in the woods in rear

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59. Their Hontoria planted three shells at the foot of our outworks, and one, tearing its way through the military crest of the ridge, burst under a bomb proof, killing Captain Rowell and Nelson, and wounding Lieutenant Lutz and several privates

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60. The shells from the fleet were more effective, though fired at very great elevation over the foothills, and ranged by mathematical calculation

61. But the position was far from comfortable, and it was a terrible ordeal to lie hour after hour, behind scanty cover, while a frontal, oblique, enfilade and cross fire was poured against the position, with seven-inch shells thumping over into the centre of the hill at intervals

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62. We could plainly see large shells from the “Brooklyn” dropping among the entrenchments on the hillside

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63. A death-like stillness reigned throughout the city; the streets were deserted, and the houses closed, save where residences of Cubans had been sacked by the guerilla, or the walls smashed in by our shells

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64. I read somewhere that the Americans shot 15 billion (yes not million) pounds of shells during the Vietnam conflict

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65. The bright red flowers that bloom when men are torn apart by shells, and bullets, and missiles

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66. Scales, feathers, fur and hard shells were all represented

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67. Broken shells littered the ground where they rested in the shade, away from the big light that now was overhead

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68. Some of the round things had fallen and lay among the empty shells

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69. Now he knew what was inside, but how…how to get at it? He looked at the round things among the shells on the ground and he wanted what was inside…but how? He looked at the broken one in his hand and he wanted the rest of what was inside

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70. Finally seeing the empty shells, he wondered as he yipped again with excitement

71. Seven minutes later, Bear's crabs were cooked, the shells changing from a dark green to orange

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72. fanned white shells with red and charcoal pinstripes

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73. They scrambled, popping the slots with shells

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74. She had never had to contend with the shells before

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75. Bearing down ever harder it finally shattered and the familiar taste was in her mouth, but so was the roughness of the shells

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76. Some of those had the stare of a wounded tiger, but for most the truth was that mines, shells, and bullets are quite oblivious to a man’s allegiance and unable to discriminate

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77. “Alongside the guns, the bullets and the shells?” asked the father with a smile, his hands tracing the emptied tin cup of coffee in front of him, his eyes lost somewhere beyond the church grounds

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78. Or, had he serendipitously been made aware of the uncertain utility of a broken branch that offered a sometime protection, before he had learned of the utility of a stone to crack tough shells? Had he, in his industry to feed himself, used his hammer-stone too diligently, accidentally flaking off an edge that revealed the sharpness that he had been warned away from, among the many choices of stones to be found lying in certain places close to where water was to be found? Had he become aware of the danger to himself in the continued use of that broken stone when the flesh of his finger came into contact with that sharp edge? Had he now thrown it in the forlorn hope that this suddenly sharp edge would somehow slash into this enemy of his existence?

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79. Findings in Spanish Cave of Shells with holes indicates Neanderthal had ornaments, and other shells indicate he used paint or cosmetics

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80. ” She also warned that besides wreaking havoc on nature, for instance, thinning bird shells and thereby leading to a “silent spring,” the increasing use of synthetic chemicals would cause a cancer epidemic among humans

81. It takes huge doses of DDT, far above spraying concentrations, to thin the shells of eggs

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82. Granma’s ash is mixed with gunpowder and then used to load shotgun shells

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83. The shells of the spinning gatling-gun tore through

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84. He could make out three of the Reactor shells at the metropolis’

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85. I watched with a morbid fascination and wondered if he enjoyed consuming egg shells or he just didn't notice

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86. I was about to ask if eating shells was the secret to becoming a top class exorcist before Shiki interrupted my thoughts

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87. The Cayapo were naked except for the sheath like the Borum, but they also used a wide variety of labrets in their lower lip, wore sashes, cords, feathers, tassels, shells, armlets, and even small mats on their backs

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88. the eggs show that they had a shock, and some of the egg’s shells will break, for no

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89. ‘The bigger cannon shells are making this UFO craft move when it hits the outside shields

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90. There is glowing endolith all across the ocean floor in rocks, shells and coral

91. There are dozens of brown scallop shells that resemble lasagna ruffles on the floor

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92. They also have thousands of small teeth that extend across the opening of the two shells

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93. There are dozens of red snakes with little legs and hard, narrow, glowing shells on their backs

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94. The blisters try to hug the wall and hide in their shells, but it is too late

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95. low shells without any content whatsoever, and what is real is

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96. They have hard shells on their back, to protect them from an above attack when they are on the ocean floor

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97. all energy and power, mere shells of what they had once

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98. inch in diameter, are composed of a nucleus and outer electron shells

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99. In addition, with its “vaulted roof shells” that rise like “billowing sails against the harbor backdrop”, it is considered one of the architectural wonders of the modern world

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100. Summer and semester students attend classes at a private language school, Colegio Hispánico Miguel de Unamuno, located in front of the House of Shells in the neighborhood of the cathedrals and the old university