13 sentences with “shells”

Bivalves have bilateral symmetry in their shells.

The hermit crab lives on the beach and uses empty shells as shelter.

There were shells too, often in the strangest shapes.

We also found marbles, beetle shells, roots and pieces of carved flint in the sandy soil.

That day, the teacher had brought some shells collected on her frequent trips to the west coast of Florida.

At Monte Cario, the Grimaldi burials included bracelets, bones and shells: the dead were dressed for the "new life".

Perhaps this plant owes its nickname "Venus" to Botticelli's painting of the young goddess emerging from the shells of a seashell.

The editors have lost track of about 50 reporters. "They've been hit by shells, or they've simply disappeared," the journalist explains.

"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.

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.

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.

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.