Sentence examples for like a shell from inspiring English sources
He fell on her like a shell".
"It's like a shell of itself," he lamented.
"They look like a shell of themselves," he said.
The house was like a shell, and the food tasted of tears.
If this sounds like a shell game, that's because it is.
I felt you carried your home on your back, like a shell".
Hilary Benn sat like a shell-shocked cockerel, his chicken-face showing no awareness of where he was.
Clearly exhausted after weeks of round-the-clock campaigning, she kicked off her Jimmy Choo spike heels and, for a moment, looked like a shell-shock victim ready for the first medevac chopper.
As Danny Alexander and Vince Cable, Ed Davey and Jo Swinson paid for their experience of office with their careers, Clegg stood alone among the ruins of his party like a shell-shocked survivor on the field of battle.
At the end of the England-U.S.A. game, his face was red, and he looked for all the world like a shell-shocked English fan staggering out of The Railway tavern in his native Bootle.
When the sand dollar looks like a shell--relatively smooth, free of tissue--it is ready to use.
