The phrase "a small shell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a shell that is diminutive in size, often in contexts related to nature, marine life, or collectibles.
Example: "On our beach walk, I found a small shell that was beautifully patterned and smooth to the touch."
Alternatives: "a tiny shell" or "a little shell".
There is a small shell (Preos Browser) built-in to PreOs.
With a faulty sonnet tying up almost enough metal for a small shell, the editor's duty is obvious.
The police blame a splinter group called the New I.R.A. Though the I.R.A. is a small shell of its old self, some suspect that it is eager to see a hard border, and the strife that would accompany it.
The veliger has a small shell into which the velar lobes and head can be withdrawn and a larval heart that seems to exist solely to provide circulation in the velar lobes.
The continuing search for Burgess Shale fossils since the mid-1970s has led to the description in the 1980s of an arthropod Sanctacaris and in 2007 of Orthrozanclus, which looked like a slug with a small shell at the front, chain mail over the back and long, curved spines round the edges.
This animal had a soft, unarmored underside, but the upward-facing surfaces were armored by: a small shell, near the front end; three zones of armor plates, which fitted close to the body and one of which ran all the way round the animal; 16 to 20 long, upwards-curving spines on each side of the body.
Sometimes, as in "The Swan Prince" (2004), in which a youth in a small, shell-shaped boat is pulled by three swans tethered by red ribbons, the effect is more campy than numinous.
The PS4 Slim is basically the same as its predecessor inside, but in a smaller shell and with a new price tag at $299 with a retail availability date of Sept 15.
The original pavilion design was much more modest than the structure that was eventually built, with a smaller shell structure and speakers affixed to poles interspersed throughout the seating area.
This ecotype displays a larger and more robust shell to resist the attack from predators such as crabs, and a smaller shell aperture in order to reduce the desiccation due to high sunshine exposure [ 47- 49].
When you are sitting in a small steel shell millions of miles from home, how will you keep hold of who you are and where you've come from?
