Sentence examples for a shell on from inspiring English sources

His father had a shell on his desk as a paperweight and one day held it to his son's ear to listen to the sound of the sea.

"You couldn't find a shell on that reef," he said.

In October, they happened to see a shell on 118th Street near Lenox Avenue, and they were intrigued.

This lazy compositional approach is extended to the schlocky collage of a soundtrack, which ends with Lisa Germano's "From a Shell" on repeat.

Hambling retreated there after Moraes's death and conceived the idea of Scallop, a memorial to Benjamin Britten shaped like a shell, on the beach at Aldeburgh.

French police were called to Paris Gare du Nord station after the find, which was reported to be a shell, on Sunday morning.

Proteins including lamb chops, filet mignon, and swordfish managed a refined and tasty simplicity, but a shell-on lobster stew proved distressingly messy and, worse, bland.

Their compartment was located just forward of the 'A' shell room on the platform deck.

On 15 August 1914, a shell landed on the vault of Loncin's powder room and half the fort exploded.

You can even find out the effects of a mortar shell on a human body.

Just across the way, a fighting cock is tethered near another home, which is nothing more than a camper shell on a pickup.