Crab shells

Usage examples of carapaces.

Reavers rushed to block them, their carapaces gleaming darkly from the afternoon rain.

With a crash of lances against carapaces his knights left the monsters impaled, then veered away at slow speed, forcing the horses to lope.

His knights were forming their pinwheel, racing ahead of him in a line to cut off reavers that thundered into battle, their thick carapaces crashing against the stony ground.

In such peaceful arts, the insectoid mages held the accumulated wisdom of centuries, and the oldest among them had carapaces whorled and stippled with the patterns of a million spells.

Neither could she stay safely wedged between the carapaces of a dozen fast-moving bodies whose destination was unknown.

Mara turned that way and, over the humped carapaces of the worker party, saw an approaching band of warriors.

Their carapaces cracked open and released a rain of hideous monsters that seemed to be all spines and armored exoskeletons and clacking jaws.

But other alien eyes, black and covered with scaly carapaces, peered out from his shoulders and from the top of his skull.

The creatures reared back, their rounded carapaces gleaming in the starlight, and moved to flank her.

The dark vacuum was filled with broken carapaces and flash-frozen alien slime.

It chittered its dull brown vestigial wing carapaces, and crouched to drag its white, soft, squishy-looking abdomen to the safety of one corner.

Three butter bugs whose carapaces flashed brown and silver as they scrabbled over one another, feelers waving.

You'd have to stay away from fundamental structural modifications in the gut and mandibles and so on, but the wings and wing carapaces are already nonfunctional.

A thin white racing stripe ran along the edges of the now-elongated black wing carapaces, which hid the pale pulsing abdomen from view.

The carapaces looked like flower petals, in a delicate pale yellow blushing with pink in multiple layers.