hard-shell

Example Sentences

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Modern restaurant menus, with the familiar enchiladas and tamales and hard-shell tacos, can resemble Tex-Mex, but never say that to a New Mexican local.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 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

Wednesday, March 17th.—Seventeen years ago Lord Balfour of Burleigh, as a hard-shell Free Trader, sacrificed office sooner than bow the knee to the new gods of Birmingham.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. by Various