shells

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In addition to troops, Pyongyang has supplied Moscow with artillery shells, short-range ballistic missiles and antitank missiles.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

"I would prefer to crawl into one of Comey's conversant shells than write a column supporting him," Turley wrote in a column for Fox News.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Comey said on Instagram that he posted "a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message."

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

"Not only were oysters harvested for food from the earliest days of colonization, but the reefs themselves were dredged and the shells crushed and burned to make lime for cement and mortar," she says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

He could make out the shells of temples and bathhouses, a half-buried amphitheater, and empty pedestals that must have once held statues.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan