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  1. Shells

    "Shells" is episode 16 of season 5 in the television show Angel.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. shells

    Hollow projectiles; also, the cases of metallic cartridges for use in small-arms. See Projectiles.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shells in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shells in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of shells in a Sentence

  1. Rex Whitmire Harbour:

    Also in the vehicle, investigators found approximately 3,000 rounds of.22 ammunition, 350 rounds of 9mm ammunition and 150 12-gauge shotgun shells.

  2. Sadie Baze:

    One of the shotgun shells was for my daughter.

  3. Clarissa Ward:

    What you're seeing in the last few days is... a major uptick, a major escalation, particularly when you're seeing shells landing on civilian buildings.

  4. Nicolas Rahal:

    More than once, near my house, I've seen people get blown apart by shells.

  5. Colin Cheng:

    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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