husk
Example Sentences
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If you can’t, leave before you are reduced to a soulless husk of the eager, happy person who walked into that chamber a decade ago.
The steely husks stood sentinel over unfathomable loss for weeks or months until they were towed away and sold as scrap.
From Los Angeles Times
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
