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

The Bay at hand, and its estuaries, abounded in trout, hogfish, rock, shad, sturgeon and other edible species in season, not to speak of soft-shell crabs, hard-shell crabs, turtles, terrapin, clams and oysters.

From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Jester, Annie Lash