hard-shelled
Example Sentences
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Loggerhead turtles have large heads and powerful jaws, giving them the ability to feed on hard-shelled prey.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
The study used data from a decades-long database of video footage depicting wild chimpanzees in the Bossou forest, Guinea, where chimps were recorded cracking hard-shelled nuts using a hammer and anvil stones.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
As a result, roughly 3000 animals are currently duking it out over dwindling resources and may be forced to rely on hard-shelled prey.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
The shells of the large, hard-shelled clam were used by the indigenous Narragansett people as wampum.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
The game disappeared, taking shelter from the rain, and the men began foraging for whatever they could find: blood-drop berries, hard-shelled nuts, flightless birds with white-and-gray wings.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
