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
  • Slit the links down the side to remove the sausage from its casing.
    — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Police found dozens of shell casings in the street in front of the house.
    — Loyd Brumfield, Dallas News, 5 June 2019
  • Hicks picked up his casing and walked out of the store and drove away.
    — Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
  • 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 first was two bullet casings found in the driveway of the home.
    — John Spina, The Denver Post, 5 June 2019
  • 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
  • The sausage has a crisp casing, along with a heavy dose of black pepper.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
  • He’d been shot in the face with a revolver that left no shell casings.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Eleven shell casings were located in the front yard of the home.
    — Pj Green august 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 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
  • Four bullet holes were found in the house, and four empty casings were found in the street in front of the house.
    — Sydney Czyzon, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2019
  • 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
  • Shell casings were spread throughout the street and on the grass on the east sidewalk of Luella.
    — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2019
  • Three 9mm shell casings and one live round were found at the scene, police said.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Officers found multiple shell casings at the scene.
    — Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • There were no cartridge casings or blood outside.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Forty-two shell casings were recovered by police inside and outside the lounge.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • His body was left on the street amid shell casings; his signature Panama hat was streaked with blood.
    — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026

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