Sentence examples for blank shell from inspiring English sources
The ceremonial salutes are fired with powder bags or blank shell casings without projectiles loaded in the breeches.
Grasso, who reported the incident to his supervisors, admits firing a blank shell and slightly injuring a recruit.
Armed with bolt-action 20-gauge shotguns mounted with digital scopes developed for military training, each hunter was given five blank shells a day.
People sat in the parking lot in lawn chairs their faces blank, shell-shocked.
If a bear does make it past the perimeter defense and into town conservation officers' first plan is to help it on its way, motivating it to leave by firing cracker shells (loud, blank shotgun shells) and following it with vehicles.
Having built up his experience in investment banking and hedge fund management, Rothschild in 2011 joined with Tony Hayward to raise $2 billion in the IPO of a blank-check shell company called Vallares with the intent of buying up oil assets.
These blank, voracious, unthinking shells are a powerful metaphor in the right hands and in the right context, and just as Romero's choice of a shopping mall all those years ago skewered consumerist America, Brooker's convincingly nasty reality TV complex nicely draws attention to our vicious urge to see celebrities and non-entities tearing each other apart on the small screen.
