Example Sentences

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Aymium CEO James Mennell said the company’s process works with all species of wood as well as agricultural residues, grasses, nutshells, cherry pits or any other lignocellulosic biomass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

"We've got loads of nutshells, oyster shells, bits of pipe, broken wine bottles and chicken bones."

From BBC • May 16, 2025

Indigenous communities in the Southwest discovered and ate piñon nuts from the Pinus edulis tree many years before Europeans arrived, as evidenced by cracked nutshells found at archaeological sites.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2022

And whereas most nutshells include several kinds of cells, walnuts and pistachios only have one kind.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 10, 2021

Duke points to a trail of broken nutshells leading to the barn doors.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein