Sentence examples for shell of protection from inspiring English sources

It felt imposing and luscious all at once, almost nurturing in its complete shell of protection.

Instead of retracting the head and neck into the shell for protection, turtles of this group lay the head and neck to the side, beneath the margins of the shell.

Why did the presumably shell-dwelling asymmetrical hermit crab ancestors of lithodid king crabs forsake the use of shells for protection, which already provided them with survival advantage?

And they start slipping in and out of shells for protection and warmth.

A vast majority of mollusks grow a hard shell for protection.

At Bagram Air Force Base, the U.S. has maintained a prison system that lacks even the shell of due process protections in place at Guantanamo.

The structure, an artistic creation of world-renowned sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, is reminiscent of a tortoise shell that conveys a sense of protection: the Carapace structure guards wine barriques in the same way that the tortoise carapace protects the animal.

The current work developed a method to fabricate functional shells for animal cells, and illustrating vital meaning of shell engineering for protection of cell or organism.

It has long been thought that turtles evolved their shells for protection from predators.

"The most important change in curatorial practice today," he said, is "the role of the independent curator -- a kind of journeyman curator or wandering global nomad" who does not have the shell of a museum for protection.

The calcareous outer shell of a barnacle offers protection against predation but also aids in regulating exposure to extreme conditions such as desiccation or salinity changes [ 82, 83].