shells
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Commercial glucosamine supplements can be produced from materials including shellfish shells or corn.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
The contrasting styles and materials of the individual elements elevate each work into an invigorating whole—a pensive portrait, for example, is given a frisson of danger thanks to the spiky crab shells that surround it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The cyclical freezing and thawing of soil also brings old shells to the surface, Goldammer said, much as flower beds can seem to produce fresh stones every winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Along the roads around Izyum burnt-out shells of petrol stations have become part of the landscape, heaps of mangled, charred metal.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
For the eyes, she had pressed blue shells from a hatched-out robin’s nest into the soft clay.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
