This page shows Shell in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like shield or withdraw. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.

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Shell in a sentence

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Shell meaning

  1. A hard external covering of an animal.
  2. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.

Synonyms of Shell

shield withdraw take away take remove cover natural covering covering scute cuticle carapace animal material ammo ammunition hull

Shell in Dutch

schaal eierschaal

Example sentences (20)

Additionally, the shell was made much larger and thinner, forming a thin shell as opposed to an almost solid ball.

Hard-shell suits Hard-shell suits are usually made of metal or composite materials and do not use fabric for joints.

Bash shell scripts intended for portability should at least take into account the Bourne shell it intends to replace.

Thus the total light received from the second shell is the same as the total light received from the first shell.

A hermit crab claims a larger shell, setting off a series of shell changes that scientists call a vacancy chain.

A mantle cleft in the shell impresses a groove in the shell, in which are the row of holes characteristic of the genus.

Soft shell if you wanna cram it full, hard shell if you got something worth protecting from getting banged up.

As shell programming became widespread, these external commands were incorporated into the shell itself for performance.

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Usually these are transitions from upper shells into K shell (called K lines ), into L shell (called L lines) and so on.

Pilipinas Shell launched its first EV charging station in Shell Mamplasan located at South Luzon Expressway, Biñan, Laguna.

This unique Ghost Shell is unlike the rest, as it seems more exposed, featuring the core of the Ghost outside of its shell.

Most tortoises have a large, dome-shaped shell that makes it difficult for predators to crush the shell between their jaws.

This is the asymptotic-giant-branch phase, and the Sun is alternately burning hydrogen in a shell or helium in a deeper shell.

New-shell lobsters have paper-thin shells and a worse meat-to-shell ratio, but the meat is very sweet.

This allowed OS/2 to have the WPS (Work Place Shell) GUI shell for OS/2 2.0 a 32-bit operating system.

Variations One item of note is the 'Universal Shell', a type of field gun shell developed by Krupp of Germany in the early 1900s.

The predicate returns the pathname of a shell or NIL (if the string is not the filename of a shell).

This stabilizes the system and creates a solvation shell (or hydration shell in the case of water).

By 2005, some liquid waste was transferred from single shell tanks to (safer) double shell tanks.

Crabs, cooked in shell or uncooked (whether in shell or not), dried, salted or in brine, frozen.

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Common combinations with shell

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • the shell 58×
  • shell and 23×
  • shell of 17×
  • shell or 12×
  • of shell 12×
  • shell is 12×
  • to shell
  • shell out
  • in shell
  • shell in

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "shell" in a sentence?
An example: "Additionally, the shell was made much larger and thinner, forming a thin shell as opposed to an almost solid ball." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "shell" from real English texts.
What does "shell" mean?
Shell means: A hard external covering of an animal.
What are synonyms of "shell"?
Common synonyms of "shell" include: shield, withdraw, take away, take, remove, cover, natural covering, covering. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "shell" in Dutch?
"shell" translates to Dutch as: schaal, eierschaal.
How many example sentences with "shell" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "shell", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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