Sentence examples for a shell of a house from inspiring English sources

Basically, we bought a shell of a house".

One customer, a professor at Fordham, wants to buy a shell of a house around the corner.

As one aid worker put it, "Do they expect us to burn down more Kyrgyz houses so that we can rebuild equal numbers of both [peoples'] houses?" Rebuilding a shell of a house in Kyrgyzstan achieves very little if its occupants live in fear of arrest, detention and torture based on their ethnicity.

What remained was a shell of a house: little more than framing studs covered with drywall, the roof overhead and the foundation underfoot.

Thomas Steinbeck remembered when the house "was a shell of a shack with no insulation — you could see the wood framing inside".

In USA's "House Wars," each of four families are given the shell of a house whose rooms they must design, with the help of an expert, in 24 days.

He worked closely with the pioneering sociologists Peter and Iona Opie, for whom he documented children at work and in the playground, and provided the cover and a substantial amount of material for the Combined Societies touring exhibition in 1954, specifically a panel on children snowballing and another of kids playing in a bombed-out shell of a house in Bermondsey.

For $350,000, the couple got the shell of a house.

As for the little shell of a house: is it the real thing or a child's toy?

We carry on, slashing a path through bushes and branches until we come upon the dilapidated shell of a house.

Water, water!" Mr. Tanimoto found a basin in a nearby street and located a water tap that still worked in the crushed shell of a house, and he began carrying water to the suffering strangers.