Mr. Kirko and his assistant, Peaches Mauer, then crown them with spent shells attached with glue and safety pins.

The horns and the fleece on its shoulders are of lapis lazuli, and the body's fleece is made of shell, attached to a thicker coat of bitumen.

Nightshade shook her staff until the shells and bones attached to it clattered ominously.

The designer Rafé offers a chunky necklace made of ivory-colored shells attached to a black leather cord ($90) and a braided leather belt dripping with shell embellishments ($120).

The emotional ambiguity with which they approach their unseen "lodger" (who is spoken to only through a communications line, a shell attached to a rope) turns their needling of one another into self-doubting.

Almonds are sold shelled (i.e., after the shells are removed), or unshelled (i.e., with the shells still attached).

For anti-aircraft firing, fixed QF rounds were quickly developed i.e. with the shell already attached to the cartridge case.

A surviving map from the Marshall Islands uses sticks tied in a grid with palm strips representing wave and wind patterns, with shells attached to show the location of islands.

Groping on the bottom in near-freezing, chest-deep water, Mr. Benway hauled up a brown beer bottle and saw two dark, thumbnail-size shells attached.

While Mr. Wonder once used hair extensions, his dreadlocks are now all his own, with beads and little shells attached to the ends.