Shells in a sentence

Microscopic analysis of the five best-preserved Qafzeh Cave shells revealed traces consistent with those created in the simulated shells via contact with a string, as well as traces of shell-to-shell contact (indicating the shells hung closely together).

I collect all kinds of natural debris like: found animal bones, skulls, beach stones, pine cones, crab claws and shells; found turtle shells, semiprecious stones, sea shells and beads.

Ammunition for shotguns is referred to in the USA as shotgun shells, shotshells, or just shells (when it is not likely to be confused with artillery shells ).

Asymptotic-giant-branch stars have helium-burning shells inside the hydrogen-burning shells, whereas red-giant-branch stars have hydrogen-burning shells only.

Shells were tested successfully at the Wahn artillery range near Cologne on 9 January 1915, and an order was placed for 15 cm howitzer shells, designated ‘T-shells’ after Tappen.

The Aleuts pierced holes around the rim of their ears with dentalium shells (tooth shells or tusk shells), bone, feathers, dried bird wings or skulls and/or amber.

When choosing a set of shells, a jazz drummer may want smaller maple shells, while a rock drummer may want larger birch shells.

The EU’s top defense production official that the bloc now has the capacity to produce 1 million artillery shells per year, but Europe has delivered only of the 1 million shells it promised to Ukraine by this spring.

Coronavirus: Crab shells may protect NHS staff from virusCrab shells could be used to protect NHS staff from coronavirus by killing germs on medical equipment, Welsh scientists have said.

The were removed from their original shells and presented with two new empty shells of different shapes, both suitable for their size.

The aggression were bombarded by more than ninety shells of mountainous areas, Al-Faza and south of Tuhaita district, while the coalition fired twenty-five mortar shells and four Katyusha rockets in Durihemi district.

Ammunition main Loading 12-gauge shells The extremely large caliber of shotgun shells has led to a wide variety of different ammunition.

By World War II shrapnel shells, in the strict sense of the word, fell out of use, the last recorded use of shrapnel being 60 pdr shells fired in Burma in 1943.

For shooters shooting fewer than approximately 500 shells a month, and especially shooting fewer than 100 shells a month, a single-stage press is often found to be adequate.

Many of the shells were fragmentation shells, specifically designed to destroy land targets.

Native Americans with access to oyster shells, often located in only one location in America, traded the shells with other tribes, showing the great importance of the body adornment trade in Northern America.

One can also say "three pails of shells"; in this case the measure word pails accompanies a count noun (shells).

Pile continued studying the problem, and returned with a proposal to fire only 150 shells at a single rocket, with those shells using a new fuse that would greatly reduce the number that fell back to Earth unexploded.

Slugs for shotgun shells are also commonly cast from pure lead by handloaders, for subsequent reloading into shotgun shells.

Take mainO as an example — its nucleus has eight protons filling the three first proton 'shells', eight neutrons filling the three first neutron 'shells', and one extra neutron.