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Grammar : Noun
Spell : hahrd-shel
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrdˌʃɛl

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Définition of hard shells

  • As in thick skin : noun ability to withstand
Example sentences :
  • Under their hard shells there is imagination that has been nurtured in long, long thoughts.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
  • The hard shells of sea urchins and starfishes are made of lime.
  • Extract from : « Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know » by Julia Ellen Rogers
  • The hard shells are not affected, but only those which are thin.
  • Extract from : « A Manual of Elementary Geology » by Charles Lyell.
  • They have hard shells, and most of them are not large; though we often shot at them, we did not succeed in getting a single one.
  • Extract from : « Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) » by Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prince of Wied
  • They have long, leg-like claws, and are covered with hard shells.
  • Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Chums » by Burt L. Standish
  • Hickory nuts are his favourite food, and the hard shells seem but an appetizing relish.
  • Extract from : « The Ontario Readers » by Ontario Ministry of Education
  • They are entirely encased in hard shells, which, though of the same general shape, differ somewhat from each other in appearance.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • The first real fossils found in the rocks are the hard shells or skeletons of the first plants and animals that had hard parts.
  • Extract from : « Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know » by Julia Ellen Rogers
  • The rocks, and the wooden piles of the pier, are often covered with the hard shells known as Barnacles, or Acorn Shells.
  • Extract from : « On the Seashore » by R. Cadwallader Smith
  • They have hard shells of a bright saffron colour, and their faces have a most cynical and diabolic expression.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the 'Alerte' » by E. F. Knight

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