Example sentences for: shell

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

  • Petroleum had been found in northern Borneo, at Miri, and in Brunei, and the Anglo-Dutch Shell company used Singapore as its regional depot for its oil supplies and exports.

  • Germond is happy to shell out an extra sawbuck per pack if only it'll keep kids from getting hooked.

  • There are three good reasons to pay $100 more for the Denali, and one so-so one: 1) The Denali has a nylon shell over its torso, improving wind resistance.

  • Its profusion of lapis lazuli is actually a thin shell fused to plaster stucco.

  • 7. thimble-rig--the equivalent of three-card monte, only with three thimbles and a pea, where the sucker guesses which thimble has the pea under it; shell game; another cheating game.


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