"the musicians left their instrument cases backstage"
"a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor"
"Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir"
"he stated his case clearly"
"a case of the jitters"
"the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced"
"a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
"for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters"
"in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"
"it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"
"the family brought suit against the landlord"
"the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase"
"the clock has a walnut case"
"the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
"They men cased the housed"
"my feet were encased in mud"
"the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice"
"the clock has a walnut case"
"The corn shelled"
"He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
"shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
"Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"