Sentence examples for a kind of shell from inspiring English sources

Millions of Americans have been keeping the lights on through hard times with borrowed money, running a kind of shell game to keep bill collectors away.

Miracle Makers would tap one account to cover another that had fallen short, in a kind of shell game that kept the agency a step ahead of insolvency.

"I know a cancer in the breast is often thought incurable," Franklin wrote Jane, "yet we have here in town a kind of shell made of some wood, cut at a proper time, by some man of great skill (as they say,) which has done wonders in that disease among us, being worn for some time on the breast".

Jeff Nelligan, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said on Tuesday that the Medicaid program was "reeling" financially, and that "one of the reasons that it's reeling is that states have operated a kind of shell game with Medicaid funding".

The Present is a kind of shell through which the Future transforms into your past (see Figure 2).

GWI's data indicates that the last time mobile handsets outstripped other devices was in Q1 of 2013, and that in fact the different platforms are playing a kind of shell game for leadership.

These come mostly at the expense of the nihilistic college professor White, which may explain Mr. Jones's decision to dial down much of his performance to a kind of shell-shocked calm.

RODbaffle heat exchanger is a kind of shell-and-tube heat exchanger with eminent performance.

Particularly, our previous work also demonstrates that with the help of assembled polystyrene (PS) sphere array, a kind of shell-like chiral nanostructures can be achieved [29].

A kind of shell-and-tube heat exchangers with fold baffles was proposed to eliminate the triangular leakage zones between adjacent baffles.

Actually, reducer bend is belonging to neither the thin wall structure nor the rotated shell of axial symmetry, but a kind of hyperboloidal shell with 2 main curvatures changed gradually complicated.