Sentence examples for i shelled from inspiring English sources

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Not long ago, I discovered that I could own a piece of my childhood trauma if I shelled out sixteen dollars on eBay.

For years I shelled out ridiculous amounts of money for a noisy Vesuvius view in a sea-front hotel, or suffered in sweaty, seedy B&Bs.

"I shelled the beans from their long, red-and-cream pods and dropped them in boiling water and turned down the heat and let them simmer," he tells us.

"As a teenager, I barely dropped a catch at all ('tis true!) but having not played for eight years, when I started again in my late twenties, the ball kept hitting my hands as I shelled plenty.

On a Wednesday morning in early September, frustrated by my inability to come up with a single idea after three or four hours of work, I turned on the radio, sat down on my couch, and listened to sports talk while I shelled two and a half pounds of cranberry beans.

Mixing the well trodden and the less explored was a good strategy on my first venture outside Naples: I went to Pompeii, which lived up to its reputation as a tourist-thronged nightmare and where they had inexplicably run out of maps to accompany the audio tour I shelled out 6.50 euros for.

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Is 25 percent appropriate, or should I shell out additional bucks for a resounding "thank you"?

But will I shell out the thousands more for natural wood?

Or should I shell out £27 – £27! – for Nerf wars and paintballing?

I usually walk, but sometimes I shell out $20 to the P.G.A. professional who owns the cart concession.

How will I know if an app is any good before I shell out a whole dollar for it?

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