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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a hollow shell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that appears to be substantial or meaningful but is actually empty or lacking in substance.
Example: "After the company was sold, it became a hollow shell of its former self, with no real purpose or direction."
Alternatives: "an empty facade" or "a mere shell".
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It's a hollow shell.
For the time being, it's still a hollow shell.
W. Oliver Stone's panoramic biography of the President as a hollow shell.
It has become a hollow shell of what it once was.
Breillat's films prove that without intimacy a story is a hollow shell, a diversion, a sham.
The state legislature is finalizing a budget that eliminates financial support for the program, making it a hollow shell.
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The layers are then left to dry under the sun, after which the entire mold is heated in a furnace to melt away the wax and hardening the coal/mud mixture, leaving behind a hollowed shell.
The carbon black nanostructured material is neither compact nor a simple hollow shell, but a porous three-dimensional arrangement of fused primary particles.
Most Belgians assume that the end-point of this crisis will, indeed, be another fudge that preserves Belgium as a country, albeit in a rather hollow shell.
iVirus.us itself seems like a rather hollow shell – clicking on data access yields a 502 bad gateway error.
The dynamics of vibroimpact is posed in terms of an initial value problem for a vertical impact pair, which consists of a primary mass constrained to move vertically within a massive hollow shell.
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