hard-shell
Example Sentences
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Maria Friedman’s unsparing direction and a thrillingly fierce central performance by Jonathan Groff have given the show the hard shell it lacked.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2024
When a beetle flies, its hard shell opens to reveal two hindwings that generate lift.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
She had the hard shell of a New Yorker.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024
But then she meets David Adler, a graduate student who interviews her for his master’s thesis and digs a little too deep, cracking her hard shell.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2023
During that interminable night, while Colonel Gerineldo Márquez thought about his dead afternoons in Amaranta's sewing room, Colonel Aureliano Buendía scratched for many hours trying to break the hard shell of his solitude.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
