How to use "shells" in a sentence

It had pictures by famous painters on the walls and glass cases with beautiful shells from the sea.

It was Jacklin's job to conceive new welfare programs, convince the Secretary of Health and Welfare that those programs were needed, sell them to the Congress, and then establish convincing bureaucratic shells to conceal the fact that the programs were utterly phony; and as federal funds flowed to these false-front operations, the money was diverted to the Network

Then two other shells burst at the same time in the air near its body

In other cases the shells had missed, and the guns had at once been destroyed by the Heat-Rays

The shells exploded all round it and it was seen to move forwards a few steps, and go down

All of the second shells missed the Martian on the ground and, immediately.

The shells blew up, the trees all around the guns caught fire and only one or two of the men escaped.