tusk shell

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Origin of tusk shell

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Words nearby tusk shell

tushie, Tusi, tusk, Tuskegee, tusker, tusk shell, tussah, tussal, Tussaud, Tussi, tussiculation

How to use tusk shell in a sentence

Their friends noticed, and asked Sabrine to talk to him to bring him out of his shell a little.
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Another said just the act of spending money on self-improvement made him determined to break out of his shell.
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If you tend to inhale your food without realizing how much you consumed, opt for nibbles like in-shell pistachio nuts.
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Then came the day Mustafa, along with two others, was killed by a mortar shell.
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Yet five years later, the news operation has vanished and TRN is now a shell of its former self.
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Off flew the shell, seven miles it flew; over the Turkish Army from one sea into another.
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He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"
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Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
From pre-natal days I was destined for the railway service, as an oyster to its shell.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
If one could languish through life in the shell of a mere beauty that life would be a good deal simpler proposition than it is.
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British Dictionary definitions for tusk shell

tusk shell

noun

any of various burrowing seashore molluscs of the genus Dentalium and related genera that have a long narrow tubular shell open at both ends: class ScaphopodaAlso called: tooth shell

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