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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a husk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is empty or devoid of substance, often used metaphorically to describe a person or thing that has lost its vitality or essence.
Example: "After the long and exhausting project, he felt like a husk of his former self, drained and lacking energy."
Alternatives: "an empty shell" or "a mere shell".
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It is a husk.
But Cobain is distant, a husk.
I'm just a husk of a man.
Her mother was a husk, dried out by grief.
All now gone – or reduced to a husk.
A husk of a country, duly prepared for Western domination.
Also in 2015, Trump was compared to a husk of corn, a caterpillar and a doughnut.
Flies were doing their primitive dance above a husk of coconut.
The key figure is Shawn's Dick, a husk of an actor.
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You slice through the fascia covering the abdominal muscle, a husk-like fibrous sheath, and lift it to reveal the beefy red muscle underneath.
There is a husk-like quality to Ted Cruz's movement: it is a fight for Washington that is not in any specific way a fight for the country.
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