Sentence examples for patch of shell from inspiring English sources
"It was like a little deserted island in the middle of the bay," said Andrew Orlando, 27, an environmental project inspector who first visited the patch of shell when he was 6.
To attach the device to the insect, students are instructed to douse the insect in ice water to "anesthetize" it, sand a patch of shell on its head so that the superglue and electrodes will stick, and then insert a groundwire into the insect's thorax.
The channel is approximately 50 m deep and has a seabed with mixed habitat types comprised of patches of shells, gravel, slate slabs, boulders, and steep rocky reefs.
It loomed over my grandmother's yard, its foundation sunk in her driveway — a patch of grass and crushed oyster shells — giving me the first sense I had that the places we inhabit and the memories we have of them are inscribed by landmarks that aren't necessarily beautiful.
Usually batteries were sited in fours, with a range-finder and predictor which measured the speed and height of the aircraft while taking into account the time the shell took to reach that patch of sky, thus calculating when to detonate the fuse in the shell.
On 20 December, during a meeting with German senior officers, Hitler cancelled the withdrawal and ordered his soldiers to defend every patch of ground, "digging trenches with howitzer shells if needed".
He noted the park's state of disrepair, including missing benches and a patch of dust in front of the band shell.
Why on earth are men prepared to shell out the price of new car for a patch of hair?
The airstrikes last week were just the latest in a string of shells, rockets, barrel bombs and other weapons to hit this small patch of Aleppo.
Tskhinvali is on a small patch of flat land surrounded by highlands held by Georgians, leaving it vulnerable to shelling, Ms. Frichova said.
