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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

But it will continue leading the court toward becoming, to quote Chief Justice John Roberts’ dismissive description of the key precedent in this case, “a dried husk of whatever people used to think it was.”

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2025

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

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025

Lifting weights, I’m just trying to keep this old husk limber and I wanna be able to have a healthy aging.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2025

He just sits on his stool, a blue broken cricket husk.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson