Sentence examples for shell from inspiring English sources

"The Shell case has shocked me," he says.

A Shell spokesman said: "Shell supports and endorses incentive programmes provided by state and local authorities that improve the business climate for capital investment, economic expansion and job growth.

Hira Lal Yadav sits in the ghostly shell of the factory where he once employed 100 weavers.

Smaller is better: rice-like orzo, conchiglie, orecchiette (ie the shell family), macaroni, penne or that old fave, fusilli, all work well.

Back in Georgetown, waiting for a taxi to the airport, we do a last-minute dash around the street stalls: all I salvage are an oil painting of the Kaieteur Falls (a rather Surrealist interpretation), a shell necklace, a woven basket and as much El Dorado rum as possible, before the plane carries us to a connecting flight at Barbados, and the waters change from brown to a shock of bright blue.

And if you don't want to order dinner at Lloyd's, you can linger beyond sunset and shell out for dinner at the main restaurant, which has a modern twist on Caribbean fare.

Authorities say a man shot an armadillo, but ended up accidentally wounding his mother-in-law when the bullet ricocheted off the mammal's hard shell.

The Captain Elias Hotel is just a shell, deserted during the economic slump.

I remember, for example, being encouraged (ie conned) by my grandson into downloading a "free" app featuring a charming kitten, only to discover that if one wanted to clothe this animal in some daft costume or other then one had to shell out a tidy sum for each costume.

But there's no need to shell out.

Without the Dairy Milk shell – and I say this without having tried the new product, obviously – we are left with nothing less than an abomination.