Sentence examples for ordinary shells from inspiring English sources

He then suggested that several kinds of fossil sea shells were formed from ordinary shells by a similar process.

A good rule of thumb in this crisis is that when a European state pays more to borrow than an ordinary taxpayer shells out for a bank loan, the government eventually has to call in the rescue brigade.

The pools that form on tidal beaches are often alive with creatures — starfish and hermit crabs, anemones and barnacles — and the most ordinary scallop shell is pretty enough to hang from a Christmas tree.

And its lack of an ordinary turtle-style shell (instead it has a leathery, flexible carapace not attached to its ribs and spinal column) probably represents another adaptation to deep water, where pressures would crack a rigid shell.

It should be stressed that the introduction of cable-stiffened system decreases the sensitivity of the stability behaviour of ordinary cylindrical latticed shell to joint types, this would enable engineers to adopt scissor-type joints to cylindrical latticed shells.

The parametric analysis shows that the stability behaviour of ordinary cylindrical latticed shell can be considerably enhanced by the pre-tensioned cable-stiffened system.

Ordinary snails have smooth shells, but not this one.

There will still, technically, be a ban on ordinary tourism, and a shell of an embargo, but with many more exceptions to both.

— Robert Hooke, "Micrographia" (1665) To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

In a later memoir, Newton wrote: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Neutral Switzerland stockpiled the munitions — artillery shells, hand grenades, ordinary bullets and other ordnance — during the war in the event of an invasion by Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy, which never came about.