Sentence examples for a empty shell from inspiring English sources

Flint might be a empty shell of a once great city but it's not going to become a lawless wasteland on FPO's watch.

Now the SPD is a nothing, an empty shell of a party.

Clay is a cipher, an empty shell who is only able to approximate interactions and experiences through acts of sadism and exploitation".

"Ties" is a portrait of marriage as an empty shell, a home for nothing other than mutual self-deception.

We meet our hero and heroine: a joyless black guy and an empty shell of a white woman.

It meant you were no longer a person, just an empty shell quivering in your socks.

"It's a bit of an empty shell for now," said Mark Newman, chief research officer at Informa Telecoms and Media.

There are cornball jokes like "Candle TV" (1975), an empty shell of a monitor with a lone candle burning inside.

She's a 16-year-old clone who is an empty shell of a teenager with no experiences, feelings or personality.

"It wasn't much more than an empty shell with a roof, but still a really beautiful building".

But in the hands of pragmatic bureaucrats, all this becomes in the long run is an empty shell, an edifice, as you said in your speech.