Sentence examples for a shell argument from inspiring English sources

"They (the oils companies) are creating a shell argument that they are doing this to protect jobs," the governor said.

I appreciate the shell argument, but counter that desktop operating systems are also moving towards more of a touch computing UI anyway.

The observed behavior of the polymer particles was explained by He et al.[5, 6] using a core-shell argument.

So the argument in (1 - 7) is actually a shell of a much longer argument that includes subarguments in favor of the basic premises and, hence, against the various alternatives to fictionalism.

But on Thursday, Edward Wilford, one of Mr. Seabrook's two lawyers, compared that argument to "a shell game" or a street-corner game of three-card monte.

A shell".

"Art is a shell.

Maybe it was a shell.

"He was just a shell".

A shell of a man, really".

"I was in a shell.