shells
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South Korea, in a pact struck with the U.S., has provided large amounts of munition shells for Ukraine’s use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Nineteen homes across five streets in the town were completely destroyed by the fire last week, with eight households left able to view the shells of their former homes.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Organisms older than 500 million years did not yet possess shells or skeletons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Along the roads around Izyum burnt-out shells of petrol stations have become part of the landscape, heaps of mangled, charred metal.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Jack says you can count the rings on their shells to determine their age, the same way you would count the growth rings in a tree’s trunk.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
