husk

Example Sentences

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From his living room window, the husk of a high-rise gutted by Russian missiles dominated the view.

From Seattle Times

A train passing through the old husk of a town jumps the tracks and overturns.

From Washington Times

The silken slices of flounder in my Chengdu fish fillet were buried at the bottom of a quart container, under a forest floor of dried Chinese peppers and red and green Sichuan peppercorn husks.

From Washington Post

The driver’s corpse and the burnt husk of the overturned Russian truck seemed proof that it was enough.

From Los Angeles Times

The site of the former eatery was nothing but a charred husk of a boarded-up Mexican restaurant Saturday, following an early morning fire.

From Seattle Times