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

This cascades into essentially living a shell of a life.

A shell of a man, really".

He's a shell of a man.

"It was a shell of a cabin.

While Brigitte led an abstinent shell of a life, Carleen had had three children with three different men.

While Don may like this now, this is would not have worked for the younger Don who married Betty to create the perfect shell of a life.

While the house is just a shell of its past life, you can bet that Hélène Roux sees something completely different when she looks at it. .

The 2.4m cannon, coated in a shell of sand, salt and sea life, is one of thousands of artefacts to have been recovered from the Queen Anne's Revenge.

While I feared he would come home in a box draped with our nation's flag, I equally feared him coming home broken -- a shell of his former self incapable of rejoining civilian life with the same vivacious spirit and infectious tenacity that made him who he was.

What if she had survived the fall but lived out the rest of your life as a shell of her former self forever critically injured and disabled.

First depicted as a brilliant, intellectual youth with literary ambitions, full of life and love of life, Avram has been a shell of himself for the past 30 years.