How To Use thin-shelled In A Sentence
- These chemicals prevented normal calcium deposition during eggshell formation, and caused females to lay thin-shelled eggs that often broke before hatching.
- There is another variety which bears on the same tree differently shaped leaves, like the heterophyllous hornbeam; this tree is also remarkable from having pendulous branches, and bearing elongated, large, thin-shelled nuts. [ The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
- This tree bore such fine thin-shelled easy-to-crack nuts and lent itself so readily to being propagated by graftage and had so many other good characteristics that we have selected it as representative of the black walnut varieties for the north and have named it the Weschcke walnut and patented the variety. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin
- Warrigal used to get the lowan eggs -- beautiful pink thin-shelled ones they are, first-rate to eat, and one of 'em a man's breakfast. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
- Warrigal used to get the lowan eggs — beautiful pink thin-shelled ones they are, first-rate to eat, and one of ’em a man’s breakfast. Robbery Under Arms