husk

Example Sentences

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Just across the street, Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” played over a loudspeaker as protesters gathered in front of the burned husk of the historic 1924 Business Block Building.

From Los Angeles Times

The burned husks of thousands of homes have been flattened.

From Los Angeles Times

Chief Justice John Roberts called that 90-year-old precedent, known as Humphrey’s Executor, a “dried husk,” suggesting that it has little relevance today.

From The Wall Street Journal

Blanck pointed out the window, to the burned husk of a Berkshire Hathaway office, asking: “Your office was over there, wasn’t it?”

From Los Angeles Times

"A white dwarf is the leftover husk of a star that has finished fusing its hydrogen," said Burgasser.

From Science Daily