seashell
or sea shell
the shell of any marine mollusk.
Origin of seashell
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How to use seashell in a sentence
Panic ensues, but then you dig your hand into your pocket, and it jingles reassuringly — not with coins, but seashells!
It would be the greatest honor, even today, to be buried among seashells.
Barnett had “set out to listen to seashells as chroniclers of nature’s truth.”
Items placed in the grave included a seashell, a large, flat rock and several ropes, one with elaborate knots and a tassel at one end.
A skeleton from Peru vies for the title of oldest known shark attack victim | Bruce Bower | July 30, 2021 | Science NewsPigment-stained seashells in the grave may have held solutions into which tattooers dipped those tools.
The oldest known tattoo tools were found at an ancient Tennessee site | Bruce Bower | May 25, 2021 | Science News
He was just opening it when the seashell was sent whizzing forward.
From Farm to Fortune | Horatio Alger Jr.The crowd finds these systems ready-made and merely backs into them and hides itself like a hermit crab in a deserted seashell.
The Behavior of Crowds | Everett Dean MartinHow strange was the monotonous sound of the waves, mournful and distant, like the sound in a seashell!
The operculum,21 of a seashell, or very occasionally some bright object, may set off the knob.
The Manbos of Mindano | John M. GarvanOn each side of the base is a shallow silver dish shaped like a seashell and supported by dolphins.
Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology | Margaret Brown Klapthor
British Dictionary definitions for seashell
/ (ˈsiːˌʃɛl) /
the empty shell of a marine mollusc
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