When the CEO resigned unexpectedly, the entire office was in shell shock.

Fishermen found a broken pearl shell washed up on the sand after the storm.

The conservationist gently removed a dead-in-shell chick from the nest to study what had gone wrong.

At the market, I bought a fresh ear shell to grill for dinner.

On the beach, I found a beautiful turnip shell encrusted with tiny barnacles.

She picked up a smooth rice shell from the tide pool and added it to her collection.

The patrol fired a star shell to illuminate the enemy positions before the night assault.

I found a turban shell clinging to the rocks in a tide pool at low tide.

The marine biologist carefully documented a rare tongue-shell burrowed in the muddy flats.

After due diligence, the board confirmed the company was a clean shell, a legal entity demonstrably free of liabilities, suitable for the merger.