Example sentences for: seashell

How can you use “seashell” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Inland from Marbella lie the high peaks of the Sierra Blanca, the most distinctive being La Concha (The Seashell), which rises directly above the town.

  • There are cases filled with elaborate and witty helmets from the early 17 th century, shaped like the knobby turbo seashell or with rabbit ears appended; swords designed more to impress than to kill; saddles decorated with such whimsical and hardly threatening motifs as powder puffs and cosmetic brushes.

  • But there are genuine regionalism lurking in both the written and the spoken language: corinna (an Aboriginal name for the Tasmanian tiger), mariner (a corruption of the Aboriginal merrina for a seashell used as a physical ornament), quoib (an Aboriginal term for a wombat), and wing-wang (again an Aboriginal term, this time for a fiery piece of lighted bark thrown by Aborigines).

  • Displays explain how a seashell is created, and, in the next room, the Stonington Collection comprises 5000 different seashell varieties from around the world, including many found in waters off Bermuda.

  • Other traditional Acapulco wares are coconut shell carvings, usually monkey’s heads, as well as decorative seashell ornaments, and regional candies made of coconut and tamarind.


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