"shell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Complications arose as the heavy marble shell sank into the spongy subsoil, and then the Mexican Revolution intervened.
- A simple white stone and marble rectangular shell surrounds the original building that contains the image.
- The interior, although impressive in scale, is a marble shell, a sadly un-exotic resting place for the royal Norman tombs.
- She felt like the marble shell of a statue; the heat from his hand was the only heat in her body.
- Charles Gwathmey's 1970's reconstruction of Whig Hall reveals what looks like one of his modernist houses tucked inside a classical marble shell.
- There he sat, yes, Oro himself, upon the dais beneath the overhanging marble shell.
- Here, in the picture, Oro waved his hand and from behind the marble shell appeared Yva herself, gloriously apparelled, wearing royal ornaments and with her train held by waiting ladies.
- I moved down a short corridor, glancing to my right into a small bathroom with a sink shaped like a sunken marble shell, gold-plated fixtures, gold-flecked mirrored tiles on one wall.
- The building, with a garden full of fountains and orange trees, is built on top of the still-standing stone and marble shell of the 1st century BC Theatre of Marcellus, which resembles a mini Colosseum.
- It consists of a marble bi-valve shell with three bees of the same material resting on it.
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