carapaces

Slowly things escalate as the sort-of narratives intersect and eventually the landfill becomes ground zero for the delivery of a huge mutant airblown inflatable holiday lawn ornament to a troupe now encased in body-covering carapaces of neon colored interlocking balloons.

The Bigger (the Art), the Better 2009

The detonation of insect carapaces fills Boland's ears.

The Last of Boland Kilean Kennedy 2011

I picked through shells and the carapaces of shattered crabs and lobsters.

"If looks could kill, they probably will..." greygirlbeast 2009

Except for their carapaces these aliens are pretty human in their emotions and lives.

District 9: A Movie Review « Colleen Anderson 2009

Larger beetles with hard green carapaces lurked in holes that they had dug in the rock - hard banks of the lane, darting out to catch the ants which ate the flies.

Excerpt: A Visible Darkness by Michael Gregorio 2009

I guess he needed them to break the carapaces of the bug like critters he ate.

Around a Sun Named Inferno Hugh Barlow 2011

From their satiny carapaces were expressed a syrupy, sap-like ooze.

Abomination at the Shilkie Andrew Edwards 2011

Wotan and Fricka had insect-like carapaces and sang with anything but insect-like voices: Vitalij Kowaljow made a fine rich sound like honey as Wotan; Ekaterina Semenchuk was a strong Fricka, with exaggeratedly long arms.

The Ring in L.A.: Freyer's "Die Walküre" 2010

But it goes no deeper than that, and we are left to watch people skimming the surface of each other, looking for a way to dive deeper, but ricocheting off the emotional carapaces that have been built up over time.

Sam Chaltain: Why I Like Mad Men 2010

Trilobites had hard carapaces made of the mineral calcite, which meant that extraction of the fossil from the rocky matrix could take many hours.

Harry Whittington obituary Richard Fortey 2010