"shell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I retreated into my shell, being painfully shy in the first place.
- But when asked to explain his success, Rocket retreated into his shy shell as if he were a turtle.
- It tried to retreat into its shell.
- If you retreat into your shell again when you reach Bajor, then you will learn nothing.
- When conditions are dry, snails retreat into their shell and seal the entrance.
- Despite retreating into its shell, China's government continued to state that it welcomed foreign business and investment.
- He was his usual self once more, retreated into his bland and distant shell.
- With that, his head pulled back from the doorway, like a turtle retreating into its shell.
- We believe in linking national interests and we do not accept that it is right for each nation to retreat into its shell.
- Controversy seems to always send Gore retreating into his shell.
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