This genus had a curved, segmented shell, and it is often reconstructed as a snail-like creature.

The voice was closer to Jake's ear, an insect buzzing near the gently curved shell.

They were on their backs, balanced on curved shells, and a gentle eddy of wind spun them in slow circles.

The stone interior of the church held darkness as a curved shell holds water.

The larger, curved shell sat within the mud on the sea floor.

It is made of a curved shell and about 5000 years old.

His architectural designs composed of reinforced-concrete structures distinguished by thin, curved shells.

Back among the trees there was a great, curved shell, bright red, like the egg of some monstrous bird.

But he had not reached the center of the sphere's roof, only the curved shell closest to Building 470.

Then she laid her palms upon the curved shell of the receptacle and closed her eyes in concentration.