Opponents to the no-nit policy point out that nits, being empty eggshells, have no clinical importance.

(Save the neatest empty eggshell, trimming its edges with scissors.)

Shortly after hatching, she removes the empty eggshells from the nest.

All year long her mother would collect empty eggshells, a stockpile that grew whenever she made scrambled eggs.

How to stuff money into empty eggshells for the gift of a nest egg, for instance.

I fired into that calm face three more times in a tight cluster before the head collapsed in upon itself like an empty eggshell.

It was like an empty eggshell.

In the morning I was up betimes, but some toast crumbs and two empty eggshells told me that my companion was earlier still.

The explosion blew through where the screens had been, and shattered Llendan like an empty eggshell.

Brave words are like empty eggshells.