Sentence examples for a string of shells from inspiring English sources

The airstrikes last week were just the latest in a string of shells, rockets, barrel bombs and other weapons to hit this small patch of Aleppo.

An elongated hanging pendant light is enclosed with a string of shells over the bar, and a fluttering mobile faintly resembles flashing fish scales, tying in an ocean theme.

The Chinese owner of a A$39m Sydney mansion was forced to sell up earlier this year after it was revealed the property had been bought illegally through a string of shell companies.

Jennifer Shasky Calvery, director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a branch of the Treasury, said "all cash" buyers of high-end properties would be forced to reveal the true "beneficial owner" and would no longer be able to hide behind a string of shell companies.

The aforementioned jiè was being used as a general classifier before the Qin Dynasty (221 BCE); it was originally a noun referring to individual items out of a string of connected shells or clothes, and eventually came to be used as a classifier for "individual" objects (as opposed to pairs or groups of objects) before becoming a general classifier.

She has heard it over the course of an acting career during which she has taken a string of hard-shell alpha-female roles, going all the way back to her portrayal of a no-nonsense advertising executive on "Bosom Buddies" in 1980, her first television series.

Around the waist of one corpse was a string of beads and shells associated with African customs; the coffin of another is inscribed with a symbol that has been linked to an African "sankofa" sign (and turned into a logo now used for the visitor center and the outdoor monument).

As reported by veteran medical journalist April O'neil, "Until this new wave of 'turtle power' is controlled, hospitals and store-front clinics alike will once again be forced to prepare for a string of toothless bites and shell-shocked patients".

CAIRO — Syria's military forces continued pressing to crush a three-month-old popular uprising on Thursday, shelling a string of southern and central towns even as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned President Bashar al-Assad that his legitimacy had "nearly run out".

Buy some window suckers, and attach the sucker to your string of shells.

The report cited a string of attacks on hospitals that were shelled by artillery or bombed by jets, often after aerial reconnaissance by helicopters.