Sentence examples for a bit of shell from inspiring English sources

Pearls are grown through a process in which a small piece of sediment – a grain of sand or a bit of shell – is deposited inside of an oyster.

We were tentative, in a bit of a shell.

She removes a bit of oyster shell from her mouth.

"It's clear now that GateWay was playing a bit of a shell game, but we could not deny them".

And over countless years, and even more dates, I noticed a bit of a shell forming around my once exuberant, outgoing and happy dating self.

Remove a little bit of shell from each end of the egg.

It's best to do this so that if you get a little bit of shell in with the egg you can easily get rid of it.

"It's a bit of an empty shell for now," said Mark Newman, chief research officer at Informa Telecoms and Media.

The medium-sized Library (formerly The Barfly) is a bit of a featureless shell, with matching bars running along each side, and toilets that are now looking particularly distressed.

If land used to collateralise much of their borrowing falls in value or is laid claim to by several lenders, that would probably prompt at least some financial entities to fail.To some extent, this shuffling of debt is a bit of an accounting shell game, says Michael Kurtz, head of China research for Macquarie Securities, an investment bank.

Typically found in Northern California, these nuts have a bit of a softer shell.