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The phrase "a shell that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type of shell or a metaphorical shell that serves a particular function or purpose.
Example: "The scientist discovered a shell that housed a rare species of mollusk."
Alternatives: "a shell which" or "a shell that serves as".
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In 1993, his forces fired a shell that killed 15 civilians at a soccer game.
What remained was a shell that needed a lot of work.
A young Moana chased after a shell that was spinning in the surf.
The rock barnacle, or picoroco, lives in a shell that looks like a miniature volcano.
"It was a shell that had been pillaged by looters and junkies," he said.
Nudibranchs are small, little mollusk without a shell that crawl around, and they happened to be very bad tasting.
Some collectors gather only specimens of the single species of a shell that typifies a particular genus.
The combination of these two techniques was sufficient to fire a shell that would land close to the target.
The building seems all bumps and barnacles, a shell that formed around Papp and makes no sense without him.
In cuttlefish and squids, a shell that was originally chambered has become transformed into a laminated cuttlebone.
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Don't buy a snail with a cracked shell, that is a sign that it may be unhealthy.
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