Sentence examples for hard coverings from inspiring English sources

Some plants and animals may develop physical structures, such as hard coverings and spines, to discourage grazers and predators.

If you are serving them in the shell, just lift off the thin, hard covering, the operculum, that covers the meat at the opening.

The seeds have an extremely hard covering and can remain viable for centuries in river mud.

Lying in a hammock near the Alströmerias in the garden you can hear the same sharp snap as the hard covering explodes and the seeds are projected far and wide.

It pushes hard, covering wall after Whitney wall with posters for concerts at rock emporiums like the Fillmore West and East, or British clubs like UFO and the Fifth Dimension.

In some cases the pupa lies on a cushion of frass (chewed or torn wood fibres) or other material; in others it is enclosed in a cocoon of frass or other material (e.g., a smooth, white, hard covering similar to the shell of a bird's egg).

Tingry noted already in 1804 that "the kernel of flaxseed is enclosed in a small hard covering.

I cried ugly and hard, covering my mouth with my hand so no one would hear me.

At a Conservative Christmas party last year, Harper dad-rocked hard, covering Sweet Child Of Mine by Guns N' Roses.

Slit open the hard covering of the aloe vera leaf.

The device is slipped into a soft foam disposable cover that is much more flexible than the harder coverings of other hearing aids.