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Shelby

American  
[shel-bee] / ˈʃɛl bi /

noun

  1. a city in S North Carolina.


Example Sentences

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“We see farmers saying ‘yeah, it’s getting too hard,’” said Shelby Bass, author of an outlook published by agricultural lender AgAmerica this month.

From The Wall Street Journal

Craig Robinson joins the cast as Atlas, a cheerful talking GPS hippo toy, and Ernie Hudson arrives as Combat Carl, alongside Shelby Rabara as Snappy, an excitable toy camera.

From BBC

Following on from Steven Knight's acclaimed TV drama series, the trailer shows Oscar winner Cillian Murphy reprising his role as flat cap-wearing criminal gang leader Tommy Shelby, returning to Birmingham during World War Two.

From BBC

New additions to the cast include Dune actress Rebecca Ferguson, Reservoir Dogs actor Tim Roth and Saltburn star Barry Keoghan, who plays Shelby's son and who seems to need to be set on the right path.

From BBC

The film is set in Birmingham in 1940 amid the destruction of World War Two, when a greying and older-looking Shelby is "driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet", the film's press notes tell us.

From BBC