He used a dishrag to clean the floor, then squeezed it out in the sink and dropped the broken eggshells in a waste can.

They were scattered all over the floor by the upended bin, mingling with broken eggshells, potato peelings and other debris.

My own brain stumbled as it hit a mind as empty as a broken eggshell.

In horror, Martha put a finger to it and felt the bone fragments shift under her touch like broken eggshell.

My head seemed to crack like a broken eggshell and everything went black.

The 75-foot sailboat inexplicably split in half like a broken eggshell.

The material trace of the work lay in photographs and 1969 bronze and silver casts of broken eggshells.

In the ashes were bits of broken eggshell.

A pile of broken eggshells are evidence of a visit from a jaguar or a caracara.

"It's almost equivalent to a broken eggshell on a hard-boiled egg," Maharam said.