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299 examples of Shell in a sentence

And we were alarmed to find that these shell companies had quickly flipped many of the assets on for huge profits to major international mining companies listed in London.
The Nigerian government transferred precisely the same amount, to the very dollar, to an account earmarked for a shell company whose hidden owner was Etete.
After many months of digging around and reading through hundreds of pages of court documents, we found evidence that, in fact, Shell and Eni had known that the funds would be transferred to that shell company, and frankly, it's hard to believe they didn't know who they were really dealing with there.
I was on Bowman Lake in Glacier National Park, which is a long, skinny lake with sort of mountains upside down in it, and my partner and I have a rowing shell.
They didn't know that what a seashell is, it's templated by proteins, and then ions from the seawater crystallize in place to create a shell.
Back to that shell: the shell is a self-assembling material.
He walks by carrying around this coconut shell thanks to the flexibility of his tentacles, which serve as both his feet and hands.
Take, for example, this beautiful blue nacre shell.
And I think in many ways we can sort of think of the use of the blue nacre shell and the Mayans as the first real application of the bluetooth technology.
And I started thinking about the textile like a shell made of concrete with perforations that would let the air in, and also the light, but in a filtered way.
I went in with my backpack that looked like a turtle shell because it was bigger than me, and I walked up to a little girl and smiled at her, and she looked up at me like I was a monster, like I was the scariest thing she had ever seen in her life.
Today, a baffled lady observed the shell where my soul dwells And announced that I'm "articulate" Which means that when it comes to enunciation and diction I don't even think of it ‘Cause I’m "articulate" So when my professor asks a question And my answer is tainted with a connotation of urbanized suggestion There’s no misdirected intention Pay attention ‘Cause I’m “articulate” So when my father asks, “Wha’ kinda ting is dis?” My “articulate” answer never goes amiss I say “father, this is the impending problem at hand” And when I’m on the block I switch it up just because I can So when my boy says, “What’s good with you son?”
By itself, it's a magnificent piece of architecture, but the structure is only a shell until it disappears under a thick blanket of messages.
A huge billboard depicting geese flying over a wheat field covers the burned-out shell of the trade union's building and proclaims, "Glory to Ukraine.
So the policemen, instead of helping me, they threw me in this small, tiny shell, like an animal.
And there they are, inside, the Ahayu:da, 106 War Gods amid offerings of turquoise, cornmeal, shell, even T-shirts ... a modern gift to ancient beings.
To some I was Martin, a vacant shell, the vegetable, deserving of harsh words, dismissal and even abuse.
This unboiling method won't work with a whole egg in its shell since the solution has to spread throughout a cylindrical chamber.
It is a very thin shell of atmosphere surrounding the planet.
Other solar system bodies might have abundant liquid water, even more than Earth, but it's trapped beneath an icy shell, and so it's hard to access, it's hard to get to, it's hard to even find out if there's any life there.
We've had various names for post-traumatic stress throughout the history of war: homesickness, soldier's heart, shell shock, thousand-yard stare, for instance.
One day I picked up this unexploded mortar shell in a trench, and I had it deposited in a makeshift mud hut lab.
He had tried to recover explosives from that shell.
The most sought-after look, incidentally, in which the outer labia appear fused like a clam shell, is called ... wait for it ... "The Barbie."
When a star explodes, its outer shell is cast off and it travels outward into space gathering up material, and it produces a little shell.
The egg is the largest cell in the body and is protected by a thick, extracellular shell of sugar and protein called the zona pellucida.
The shell of the pteropod was placed into seawater at a pH that we're expecting by the end of this century.
After only 45 days at this very realistic pH, you can see the shell has almost completely dissolved.
Their father was taken in by the Taliban, only to return a few months later, a shell of the man he once was.
Because the scallop shell has been the icon and badge of your walk, and every arrow that you have seen along that way has been pointing underneath a scallop shell.
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