shell back
Americannoun
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Hoping to bring the shell back to the US, the family packed it in their return luggage.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2022
It has a scorpion tail, a turtle shell back, six bear legs, and a human-lion head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
You take that shell back home with you and it serves as this talisman, this object of beauty.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021
He had popped open an English walnut, sticking it in there, gluing the shell back together and mixing it in with a bag of other walnuts.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 2014
And even if we did get to it, we wouldn’t be able to get the shell back open to eat it.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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