Sentence examples for tried to shell from inspiring English sources
The court also heard the four-year-old had tried to shell and eat "dried kidney beans" from the children's sand table on the last afternoon he was at school.
His forces, which could not deal with urban warfare, tried to shell or bomb their way to victory, deserted under pressure, and found themselves under constant threat from low level ISIS and Sunni tribal attacks.
If that's the case, AT&T may have tried to shell out a $39 billion premium just to keep T-Mo out of Sprint's reach, citing costs to cover its tracks.
In the episode, Mary and her WJM-TV coworkers attend the funeral of Chuckles the Clown, a character on the station who unexpectedly dies after grand marshaling a circus parade dressed as a peanut (as Mary's boss Lou Grant explains, a "rogue elephant tried to shell him").
The boys, all cousins aged between nine and 12, were killed as they tried to flee shelling from an Israeli gunboat.
He tried to open anonymous shell companies and bank accounts 45 times across the world.
They tried to play a shell game with building lots and got caught.
When it arrived, I tried to break the shell with my chopsticks, which was not one of my smarter ideas.
Two American weapons experts suffered minor exposure to the nerve agent when they tried to defuse the shell but were not seriously harmed, the officials said.
Furthermore, Ma et al. [73] tried to synthesize rough shell and rough yolk spheres (Fig. 2c) from outside to inside through a template-free method.
Equally, trying to avoid shelling out the cab fare may mean taking an extra couple of hours to get to work, with less time and energy left over for other things, not least supervising a child's schoolwork and keeping tabs on his social life.
