Dekyk's hemispherical carapace split in half as if he were about to open his shell and take wing.

Her classmate Corey Jackson wrote that "it feels like when a bird cracks open its shell."

Nothing I have can open its shell, or whatever holds that germ of life.

"We've got his beams tied in there while he's defending himself, but we can't open his shell."

A free-living scallop can swim by rapidly opening and closing its shell.

"The big flat one," it said as it propped itself awkwardly in the chair and opened its shell.

The old whale touched the shell with her fin, and the oyster opened its shell for us.

Later, when things began to go bad, I tried to open my shell and found that the hinges were stuck.

It fully opened its shell, and extruded pale arms and shoulders.

"I bet it was that Joshua," she said, as Adam tried clumsily to open his shell.