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Definition of shell-like in English: shell-likeadjective Resembling a shell in shape or appearance. （外形）似贝壳的 a creature with a shell-like carapace 有类似背甲的生物。 Example sentencesExamples - As for her hair, half of it was split horizontally on the back of her head and was tied up and twisted in a shell-like shape with an aqua-blue flower clip and the other half was down to her shoulders.
- Over an exclusive telephone conversation, the ever excitable Matt Alden confided in my shell-like ears that he's incredibly excited about the new venture.
- Promises will be made, seductive asides will be whispered into shell-like ears, egos will be stroked.
- The blooms are shell-like, rather than flat and open.
- Some of her favorites are the round, white, shell-like stones she finds by streams and rivers.
- We were trying to decipher the pictures narrated in Arabic: A weeping man was tending some palm-size, brownish, shell-like objects.
- Their bodies are not distinctly segmented, but an important feature of their anatomy is the carapace, a folded shell-like structure which covers the animal and opens both ventrally and posteriorly.
- Nevertheless her ‘Nightsong’, which incorporates and subtly updates a line from an Irish song, is very fine, as is the even more stark, shell-like vocal of ‘Psalm’.
- As the faeries left the classroom and made their way through the twisting, shell-like corridors of the palace, Phantasia stopped off to sit down on a rock shoal that overlooked the Queendom beyond the walls.
- Now, he and his team at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, inspired by the microscopic marine organism, radiolaria, are building shell-like structures that might one day form the building blocks of such devices.
- I feel the familiar signs, I feel the warmth at the base of the shell-like whorl.
- Within a shell-like body no bigger than a motorcycle wheel, Beagle 2 carries an incredible array of instruments, including an on-board laboratory for analysing samples, a rock drill and a burrowing mole.
- The fragments from detonations of hydrogen-filled eggshells - compared with those of smashed shells - suggest that all shell-like structures may fragment in a similar way.
- In ‘Amphibians,’ the tortoises arranged around the shell-like form vary in size gradually.
- The writer equated ‘its shell-like translucency [with] the finest old Chinese porcelain.’
- Word reached my shell-like ears just as the quartet were gearing up to play their July 21 show.
- His pink, shell-like horn strikes the glass with an audible thump.
- So if you imagine the cochlear being wound, it's sort of shell-like, it's not a straight system but what you've got to do is insert it as you might indeed a twisted shell like a snail and the further it goes in presumably the better the sound.
- The sandals nearly eclipsed Renee's tiny, delicate feet, and Suzie had spent a painstaking quarter of an hour painting her shell-like toenails a girlish shade of pink.
- He was lying on his back, his eyes closed, his lips pouting, his right arm stretching upwards with his tiny fist curling beside his shell-like ear.
noun British informal A person's ear. 〈英，非正式〉人的耳朵 Prentice had a word in somebody's shell-like 普瑞提斯跟某人说了悄悄话。 Example sentencesExamples - Over toasted sandwiches in an Edinburgh hotel room, Gary Lewis is telling me a story Michael Caine told him about a piece of acting advice dropped into Caine's shell-like by none other than bow-legged screen legend John Wayne.
- This is because he has just had a word in the Pope's shell-like.
- Anyway, I jammed a pair of earplugs in the ol’ shell-likes and managed to get a bit of extra kip, although I had some very weird dreams and dreams within dreams.
- By the time Bugs Bunny picks his way through the smoking wreckage to have the last word in your shell-like, the dizzying accretion of events has pulled you through so many emotional states you might not even know what day it is.
- The clamour among Celtic supporters is for Strachan to have similar words in the shell-like of Thompson, who made an inauspicious comeback from injury last week.
- The Lord wants a quick word in your collective shell-like.
- Ever bashful, Rolf bounded towards the dais and whispered instructions in Howard's shell-like, believing he was the house pianist.
- My trainer Tim Etherington, awfully nice chap, has whispered in my shell-like that I am entered in not just one, but two meetings next week.
Definition of shell-like in US English: shell-likeadjectiveˈSHelˌlīkˈʃɛlˌlaɪk Resembling a shell in shape or appearance. （外形）似贝壳的 a creature with a shell-like carapace 有类似背甲的生物。 Example sentencesExamples - As for her hair, half of it was split horizontally on the back of her head and was tied up and twisted in a shell-like shape with an aqua-blue flower clip and the other half was down to her shoulders.
- The fragments from detonations of hydrogen-filled eggshells - compared with those of smashed shells - suggest that all shell-like structures may fragment in a similar way.
- We were trying to decipher the pictures narrated in Arabic: A weeping man was tending some palm-size, brownish, shell-like objects.
- In ‘Amphibians,’ the tortoises arranged around the shell-like form vary in size gradually.
- Some of her favorites are the round, white, shell-like stones she finds by streams and rivers.
- I feel the familiar signs, I feel the warmth at the base of the shell-like whorl.
- The sandals nearly eclipsed Renee's tiny, delicate feet, and Suzie had spent a painstaking quarter of an hour painting her shell-like toenails a girlish shade of pink.
- So if you imagine the cochlear being wound, it's sort of shell-like, it's not a straight system but what you've got to do is insert it as you might indeed a twisted shell like a snail and the further it goes in presumably the better the sound.
- Now, he and his team at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, inspired by the microscopic marine organism, radiolaria, are building shell-like structures that might one day form the building blocks of such devices.
- He was lying on his back, his eyes closed, his lips pouting, his right arm stretching upwards with his tiny fist curling beside his shell-like ear.
- Over an exclusive telephone conversation, the ever excitable Matt Alden confided in my shell-like ears that he's incredibly excited about the new venture.
- The blooms are shell-like, rather than flat and open.
- Word reached my shell-like ears just as the quartet were gearing up to play their July 21 show.
- His pink, shell-like horn strikes the glass with an audible thump.
- Their bodies are not distinctly segmented, but an important feature of their anatomy is the carapace, a folded shell-like structure which covers the animal and opens both ventrally and posteriorly.
- Within a shell-like body no bigger than a motorcycle wheel, Beagle 2 carries an incredible array of instruments, including an on-board laboratory for analysing samples, a rock drill and a burrowing mole.
- Promises will be made, seductive asides will be whispered into shell-like ears, egos will be stroked.
- Nevertheless her ‘Nightsong’, which incorporates and subtly updates a line from an Irish song, is very fine, as is the even more stark, shell-like vocal of ‘Psalm’.
- The writer equated ‘its shell-like translucency [with] the finest old Chinese porcelain.’
- As the faeries left the classroom and made their way through the twisting, shell-like corridors of the palace, Phantasia stopped off to sit down on a rock shoal that overlooked the Queendom beyond the walls.
nounˈSHelˌlīkˈʃɛlˌlaɪk British informal A person's ear. 〈英，非正式〉人的耳朵 Prentice had a word in somebody's shell-like 普瑞提斯跟某人说了悄悄话。 Example sentencesExamples - This is because he has just had a word in the Pope's shell-like.
- Ever bashful, Rolf bounded towards the dais and whispered instructions in Howard's shell-like, believing he was the house pianist.
- The Lord wants a quick word in your collective shell-like.
- Over toasted sandwiches in an Edinburgh hotel room, Gary Lewis is telling me a story Michael Caine told him about a piece of acting advice dropped into Caine's shell-like by none other than bow-legged screen legend John Wayne.
- Anyway, I jammed a pair of earplugs in the ol’ shell-likes and managed to get a bit of extra kip, although I had some very weird dreams and dreams within dreams.
- My trainer Tim Etherington, awfully nice chap, has whispered in my shell-like that I am entered in not just one, but two meetings next week.
- By the time Bugs Bunny picks his way through the smoking wreckage to have the last word in your shell-like, the dizzying accretion of events has pulled you through so many emotional states you might not even know what day it is.
- The clamour among Celtic supporters is for Strachan to have similar words in the shell-like of Thompson, who made an inauspicious comeback from injury last week.
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