hard-shell
Example Sentences
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In May, I challenged him to have tacos with my dad and me after the internet mocked him for declaring that the hard-shell tacos at a Del Taco in Barstow were “street.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
It appears that their grandfather, Old George Yonts, was a man noted in several ways, as a hard-shell preacher, as a wonderful nag-trader, and, like Odysseus, as a man of craft and guile in wars.
From Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman
