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Shells
"Shells" is episode 16 of season 5 in the television show Angel.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
shells
Hollow projectiles; also, the cases of metallic cartridges for use in small-arms. See Projectiles.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SHELLS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Shells is ranked #37492 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Shells surname appeared 594 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Shells.
84.1% or 500 total occurrences were Black.
8.2% or 49 total occurrences were White.
4.8% or 29 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.8% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Shells in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Shells in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Shells in a Sentence
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.
Loud sounds of mortar shells are being heard from a distance. Shops ... are open but there is a lot of tension.
We can call those signals that we hear at the negotiations positive, but those signals don’t silence the explosions of Russian shells.
With only isolated skulls or shells, we are unable to fully understand how different species of fossil turtles are related, and what roles they played in their ecosystems.
These prawns are from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and here are prawns from Guangdong and Fujian, river prawns from Zhejiang are firmer in texture, whereas those from Guangdong are softer because of the high temperature there, shells are thinner too.
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