Sentence examples for the shell of things from inspiring English sources

They felt like the shell of things.

They usually cling to the relative safety of Portobello Road, which is lined with stalls where you can buy overpriced drinks inside the shells of the things they're made from.

The crunch of the outside, thin as crisps, and the soft potato within, infused with the shell of caramelized butter that encases the whole thing, tall as a pudding bowl — this is old-style Cordon Bleu cuisine, the kind of thing Audrey Hepburn would have had to learn in Paris as Sabrina, and as Gigi would have eaten.

Walsh puts me in the shell of an old brain scanner, which is often used to test procedures before hiring the real thing.

"It's the shell of John Galliano".

Only the shell of that system survives.

Calcutta was a shell, the shell of empire, and from inside this shell nine million Indians spilled out.

But some of the most important sensing we do with our fingers is to register incredibly minute differences in pressure, of the kinds that are necessary to perform tasks, which we grasp in a microsecond from the feel of the outer shell of the thing.

"Over the decades," Mr. Mauceri said of the shell, "all kinds of things have been put on it, glued on it and hung from it to improve the acoustics.

China-witnessing the shelling of Chinese junks.

Unlike the shells of its relatives, the lingulids, the obolus shells were composed of calcium carbonate.