How to Use casing in a Sentence

casing

noun
  • The gun had blood on it and a shell casing was stuck in the slide.
    oregonlive, 15 June 2020
  • Blood in the street led to the apartment, and a shell casing was found near the blood.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2020
  • There were shell casings on the street in front of my house.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The fuse is set so for the grenade to go off as soon as the casing splits open.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • Lazic loves to deep-fry the sausages briefly to crisp up the casing.
    Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The officers reached the scene and found 11 shell casings near one of the gas pumps.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The charging mode can be switched by pressing a switch on the side of the casing.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Police found most of the casings at the scene on the ground where the driver’s door of Glover’s car had been.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In 2021, the naked dress is more of a battle cry than a body-con casing.
    Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 2 July 2021
  • He’d been shot in the face with a revolver that left no shell casings.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The only controls on the mic are two small switches on the rear of the mic’s casing.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • One shell casing was in the windshield and the other was in the hood of the vehicle.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • In all, more than 100 shell casings littered the streets.
    Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 8 June 2024
  • Shell casings were found by the side of the road along with the victim’s belongings.
    Andrew Paparella, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • About an hour later, Ephron returned to the scene and picked up two casings off the street.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Cook sausage: Remove the casings from the Italian sausage links.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The casing matched the one found that nearly killed the young man in the grocery store parking lot.
    William La Jeunesse, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Three 9mm shell casings and one live round were found at the scene, police said.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • At least 60 shell casings were found in the area, the Sun-Times reported.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024
  • One of the concrete pits was full of empty shell casings.
    Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The pressure change forces the bullet out of the casing and down the barrel toward the target.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
  • With that warning, remove the fill-hole plug at the top of the diff casing, then unscrew the drain plug.
    Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2021
  • This time, the careful killer slipped up and left a partial print on a shell casing.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Police found nine shell casings in a parking garage in the 2700 block of Blake Street.
    Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Fold a short end of the headband unit in half twice: once to the left, once to the right around the elastic casing between folds.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Plus, both the lining and the casing are dishwasher-safe.
    Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Inside the mall near the entrance, there were shell casings and a trail of blood that led to Wilson.
    The Indianapolis Star, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The casing … matched the two recovered shell casings from the crime scene.
    CBS News, 13 Nov. 2021
  • To tackle the problem, this new type of plastic casing dissolves in water in just a few hours.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Nine shell casings were recovered at the scene, police said.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025

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