SHELLS OUT Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

shells out

verb

present tense third-person singular of shell out

as in spends

to hand over or use up in payment we shelled out an obscene amount of money for those concert tickets

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Recent Examples of shells out As guests don waders and walk into the shallow bay to the floating baskets where Navy Cove cultivates its bivalves, co-owner Eric Bradley shells out oyster-farming facts. —

Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 30 May 2026 For hundreds less than competing flip phones, Motorola shells out a heavy dose of bendable fun. —

Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 28 May 2026 Google already shells out billions to Apple each year to be the default search engine on iPhones. —

Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026

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Magloire, who once dreamed of becoming a professional soccer career and has mixed feelings about the World Cup’s current state, nowadays spends more time thinking about movements on a stage than on a soccer field.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 13 June 2026
When a company spends that much political capital warning about existential risk, policymakers eventually act on those warnings.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026