husk

Example Sentences

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Traditionally, logs made of coir - coconut husk - have been imported from South-East Asia to reduce erosion, hold back water and also re-wet degraded peatland.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

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’s also about giving Pittsburghers a more pleasant traveling experience and, implicitly, moving on from the husk of an airport that US Airways left behind.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 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

“I think it’s our best tree ever,” Jojo said, picking a popcorn husk from his teeth.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper