11 sentences with 'shells'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shells and other words derived from it.
• « At Monte Cario, the Grimaldi burials included bracelets, bones and shells: the dead were dressed for the "new life". »
• « The weapons that had been developed in the decades before the war, from huge new battleships known as Dreadnoughts (single-calibre battleships) to high-explosive artillery shells and machine guns, had all been considered fortresses for the nations of Europe. »
• « Behind the trenches were artillery batteries, capable of launching huge shells for miles, and further back still the command posts of senior officers futilely devising new variations on a constant theme: desperate assaults on the enemy's impregnable position. »
• « Thus, the experience of war in the trenches for the next three years was a state of continuous misery: men stood in the mud, sometimes more than a foot deep, in the cold and rain, while shells whistled over them and occasionally blew them over. »
• « That day, the teacher had brought some shells collected on her frequent trips to the west coast of Florida. »
• « The cockles, their shells elaborately adorned with a fan of ribs topping a serrated edge, contrasted with the simple clams, on which uneven striations ran parallel to a smooth edge. But these calcareous products pale in comparison to the elegant Florida shells. »
• « "On a bad day, the building is hit by more than 10 shells," explains the newspaper's news editor. In addition, others fall around the building and shrapnel damages the walls. »
• « The editors have lost track of about 50 reporters. "They've been hit by shells, or they've simply disappeared," the journalist explains. »
• « Perhaps this plant owes its nickname "Venus" to Botticelli's painting of the young goddess emerging from the shells of a seashell. »