hard-shell
Example Sentences
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He once bought a $117 pair of MSCHF’s Gobstomper shoes whose soles wear down to reveal differing colors in a nod to the hard-shell candy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
He told his father his feet were "made for beaches and not hard-shell boots".
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
"Depending on the contaminant and its chemistry, if it is small enough to pass through the gills of the mussel, it has the potential to accumulate in their tissue or precipitate within the hard-shell structure."
From Science Daily • May 31, 2024
Nerds, another Ferrara brand, has a hard-shell version.
From Washington Times • Oct. 24, 2023
Brother Barker, of the hard-shell type, is less original, though good; while Captain Simmons, Colonel Ret Roberts, and other village idlers and great men, seem admirably true to nature.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
