Advertisement
Advertisement
husks
Example Sentences
Husks of homes, some of them choked in jungular vines, furnish a tropical Pompeii for viewers on the disaster bus tours.
It was explicitly seen as a means to reduce women and men of courage to useless husks when they finally reemerged.
Note: This is just not the same made with supermarket, dried out, bleached-out husks.
Then they heaped the hot ashes in a mound and buried therein potatoes and corn with the thick green husks left on it.
I have taken only the husks of life and discarded the kernels.
By this time the husks will have begun to decompose and darken the kernels.
"Come out, old fellow," he called, and he heard the dog's tail thrashing the corn husks.
Mote consists of ripe maize first boiled and then laid in hot ashes, after which the husks are easily stripped off.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse