Sentence examples for kind of shell from inspiring English sources

Millions of Americans have been keeping the lights on through hard times with borrowed money, running a kind of shell game to keep bill collectors away.

Such unusual stability suggests that its interpretation should be associated with the closing of some kind of shell, or energy level.

The French authorities with whom he was negotiating, however, pointed out that their cast-iron cannon would not be strong enough for this kind of shell.

"The people in the store were kind of shell shocked," Mr. Paxon said in an interview, recalling the reaction to the woman's confession.

Miracle Makers would tap one account to cover another that had fallen short, in a kind of shell game that kept the agency a step ahead of insolvency.

The Army would not say what kind of shell was used, but the soldiers suffered shrapnel wounds, suggesting a shell designed to kill soldiers rather than to pierce armor.

"Last year we were kind of shell-shocked: we knew they were a lot better than us," Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik said.

These come mostly at the expense of the nihilistic college professor White, which may explain Mr. Jones's decision to dial down much of his performance to a kind of shell-shocked calm.

Twenty-five members of Mr. Sheikh's extended family have been killed, he said, most of them by this kind of shelling, a few while in battle at the front lines.

RODbaffle heat exchanger is a kind of shell-and-tube heat exchanger with eminent performance.

Particularly, our previous work also demonstrates that with the help of assembled polystyrene (PS) sphere array, a kind of shell-like chiral nanostructures can be achieved [29].